Frailea gloriosa Size:4" Pot Flower color: red-orange or yellow

Flower color: red-orange or yellow

and low-watering protection from frost during the colder months

The name "Desert Spoon" comes from the spoon-shaped impressions left at the base of the plant’s leaves where they connect to the stem

however it can be brought indoors sitting on a sunny window sill or under a grow light

with prominent rounded tubercles usually depressed globose to depressed conical when growing in habitat

Frailea gloriosa Size:4" Pot Flower color: red-orange or yellowFrailea pygmaea var. gloriosa Prestl Origin and Habitat: Frailea pygmaea grows widespread over a wide area in Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. Habitat & ecology: Grows often in mountainous region in scattered but numerous populations, and it is often quite common. Usually it is found in the crevices of rocky outcrops, between the pebbles near these outcrops or in grassy, gravelly areas where the thin soil depth minimizes any competition from other