Ariocarpus is also known as the living rock cactus. It is a tiny, spineless plant that has a slow growth rate and little spread. There are seven species, which are native to the desert areas of Mexico. The plants are difficult to grow from seed and slow to mature unless grafted. It was once legal to export the cactus by the truckload from Mexico but all that stopped in 1992 when the plants were assigned protected status. It can take up to eight years before a living rock flowers and can have seed harvested, which makes these interesting plants expensive and hard to find.
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