USA, Arizona, Yavapai County, Maricopa County: Grown in cultivation at Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, N 33 deg 27' 33'', W 111 deg 56' 35'', 1200 ft., 366 m: accession number 1991 0269 0101; orignally received as a plant collected as part of the salvage project at Lake Pleasant on 13 March 1991; Arizona, Yavapai, Lake Pleasant Regional Park; Section 30, T7NR1E; upland Sonoran Desert, Sonoran vegetative zone.
33.9204 -112.2996 +-969m.
Flowers collected in the morning; diameter 50 mm, length 64 mm, outer perianth ligth magenta with greenish midstripe, inner perianth magenta; stigma lobe number 9, color green; fleshy fruit diameter 25-27 mm, length 25-30 mm, all fruit had split open and had white pulp; seeds black; rib count 12; older spines tan or gray, newer spines brown; fruit and spine collected 17 May 2002 by Joni Ward.