New kid on the block

Look what I found when grocery shopping!
It happens that the one of the supermarket have very cool cacti from time to time. This is not a usual one and I was actually waiting for the tho show up.

Astrophytum (ornatum?) - that is his name. Among all the other spiky cousins there was only one like that. Could I leave it behind? Hell no!

He is cute.
And he is twisted :)

And has pretty furry spots.
Broken spines is not my fault. The shops usually are not very careful with the little ones and often the get those broken. But he will be fine. New ones are already growing.
Soon he will get a new pot with pretty pebbles on top and will get adjusted to sun slowly. Then he will live outside with other cacti.

Fun fact: He can withstand temperatures to -10 degrees C!
And he will not bloom for next few years apparently. I read that usually they start to bloom at the age of 7. So no flowers for me. But that's ok. He is pretty as it is.

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