Hechtia schottii Hemsl.

botanical
PLANTS OF MEXICO
Hectia schottii Baker
TAMAULIPAS: Los Ebanos, about 10 km S
of Jaumave, at Km. 103 on Hwy 101, hwy
elevation 3500', dry desert. No Hechtia
grew right beside the road here, but there
was a very thick population up the steep
limestone hillside some 700 feet. The
plants grew down nearly to the level of the
town.
More solitary than H. scariosa, though still
bunching up to some- extent. Forming
rather large rosettes that were quite flat.
Flowering stalks reaching about 8 ft., but
some as short as 4 ft. One with some flow-
ers, the female heads getting ripe and
beginning to scatter a few seeds.
D. S. Lewis	21 June 1974
University of Texas at Austin
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