doubleplusunlucky:

This little Turbinicarpus jauernigii blooms like clockwork every November, when nightly temperatures drop into the 50s and most of the other cacti and succulents in my collection have gone into winter dormancy. It’s hard to make out in these photos, but it looks like this cactus is developing at least one additional flower bud this year. Maybe two?

I really enjoy Turbinicarpus as a genus. There’s just a lot of morphological variation and neat adaptations packed into this small group of (even smaller) cacti.

This particular plant is a purple-hued rock-mimic the size of a large gumball, so of course it’s one of my favorites.