Thank you! According to cactus-art.biz it's quite rare, so who knows if I'll ever find one for sale (and if then, in my price range) but at least it can go on a list of covetables.

They come up on eBay once in a while, but are $$$$.

Cute from a distance, but in viewing some of the photos online those unique structures on the surface really do resemble creepy crawlies. Gives me the willies. I couldn't have one, but hey. To each their own. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Below is the photo that started me itching and scratching. I found it on cactiguide.com.

http://cactiguide.com/cactus/?genus=Pelecyphora&species=aselliformis

Tyler

I've been searching for this one for a couple of years now, even though cactuseses are not my thing. In fact, there was a bidding war on enablersBay last weekend but the seller was in the Czech Republic and I did not want to import.

Not a fan of the flower, but that woodlice design is pretty awesome.

That's what I always thought, Pagan, about the woodlice design, but I thought it was an Uptown-Funk-stylish mealy bug. Disagree vociferously with your flower opinion, however. I wonder how many, aside from me, initially thought it was infested with bugs (like the Astro hybrids with the white dots).

Want, want, want, bugs and flowers!

For Pagan's bug cactus collection:

Did not think I would ever love mealies, but these are fantastic.

Holy crap. The bugs have taken over that thing. Why does he have one and I don't?!

Too kewl!