Origin and Habitat: Garden origin (Nursery produced cultivar)

• Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus f. mostruosus proliferus hort.

• Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus (Lem. ex K.Schum.) K.Schum.
• Anhalonium fissipedum Hort.Monv. ex Lem.
• Anhalonium kotchubeyi Lem.
• Anhalonium kotschoubeyanum Lem. ex K.Schum.
• Ariocarpus rotchubeyanus Cobbold
• Cactus Kotschubeyi Kuntze
• Roseocactus kotschoubeyanus (Lem. ex K.Schum.) A.Berger
• Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus subs. albiflorus (Backeb.) Glass
• Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus subs. tulensis Halda
• Roseocactus kotschoubeyanus var. albiflorus Backeb.
• Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus f. cristatus hort.
• Roseocactus kotschoubeyanus f. cristata hort.
• Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus var. elephantidens Skarupke
• Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus subs. elephantidens Halda
• Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus var. elephantidens f. cristata hort.
• Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus var. macdowellii (Backeb.) Krainz
• Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus subs. macdowellii (Backeb.) Halda
• Roseocactus kotschoubeyanus subs. macdowellii Backeb.
• Roseocactus kotschoubeyanus var. macdowellii (Backeb.) Backeb.
• Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus f. monstruosus hort.
• Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus f. mostruosus proliferus hort.
• Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus subs. neotulensis Halda
• Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus f. rubra hort.
• Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus subs. skarupkeanus Halda & Horáček
• Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus subs. sladkovskyi Halda & Horáček
• Ariocarpus sulcatus K.Schum.
• Anhalonium sulcatum Salm-Dyck

Description: This is an heavy clumping (monstrous) cultivar, with very small and densely branched heads. The cluster of heads never get much larger but can slowly fill a 10 cm bowl.
Stems: Basally branching from 0,5 to 1,5 cm in diameter that turns a dark green in direct sunlight.
Tubercles: The tubercles are thin deltoid dark olive green with no spines. They are more long than wide, closely packed and divergent, sharply angled apically.
Areoles: Forms a central longitudinal areolar groove extending to the tips on the adaxial surfaces of the tubercles, woolly, 1-3 mm wide, 4-7 mm long.
Roots: The cuttings form large swollen tuberose.

Cultivation and Propagation: The plants need deep pots to accommodate the napiform unit formed by the stem base and the rootstock , and a loose mineral soil with a well-drained substrate. They need a good amount of light, a place near the roof of the greenhouse helps drying the pot after watering. This can be done weekly during summertime, if the weather is sunny enough, with a little fertilizer added. Kept this way, plants will show a healthy, although slow growth. They are frost hardy to -10°C.

Propagation: Cuttings but plants are often grafted to accelerate growth as they would generally take at least a decade to reach maturity on their own roots, but the grafted plants are typical rather tall growing, compared with plants on their own roots that are usually very flat to the ground.