Ariocarpus cactus habitat and cultivation on my channel 📺 #cactus #ariocarpus | East Coast Camanchaca

Living Rock Cactus - Ariocarpus fissuratus. The thick cuticle on this species helps protect it from the dry air and heat, helps protect it from the intense UV of this mostly barren rocky landscape, and also helps it look like a rock so that it blends in with the grey and white limestone geology in which it grows. This species - and most of the 8 or 9 species of Ariocarpus - can only ever be found occurring on limestone or closely affiliated calcareous (calcium carbonate) sedimentary rock that we