This plant forms huge specimens when grafted on a very short Opuntia compressa stock. (it don't do well on its own roots because rot very easily)

Photo of conspecific taxa, varieties, forms and cultivars of plants belonging to the sclerocactus glaucus complex (This Taxon has several synonyms ( like many other cacti) whit controversial varieties and subspecies and comprises different forms, but where each form is linked to others by populations of plants with intermediate characteristics):

• Sclerocactus glaucus (De Beque form)
• Sclerocactus glaucus forma cristata
• Sclerocactus wetlandicus ( glaucus)
• Sclerocactus wetlandicus forma cristata (glaucus)

Scientific name:  Sclerocactus wetlandicus Hochstätter ssp. wetlandicus
Published in: Succulenta (Netherlands). 68: 123, figs. s.n. (upper row, p. 124). 1989.

Conservation status: Listed in CITES appendix 1.

Origin:  Garden origin (Nursery produced cultivar)