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Mary

My Pin Needle Cactus has a wrinkled bottom! Can anyone explain why the bottom is thin and wrinkled?

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  1. Plant lover 2000

    Usually my succulents wrinvkle when they need water... not sure about these though

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  2. All_things_plants

    It looks like it’s grafted

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  3. Hayley

    Agree it appears to be grafted. That shrivelled part doesn't look like an Eve's needle at all

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  4. Heartbreaker

    The bottom looks like an Eastern prickly pear to me which shrivel up when they go dormant in the winter

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  5. Mary

    That is what I thought it was until the pin started growing out of it. Unlike a prickly pair it there are no spikes on it. They are soft protuberances.

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  6. Mary

    I did more research on the plant. It is a Brazilian Prickly Pear!! The bottom part is supposed to look like that and New growth shoots up like a pin! I have never heard of a Brazilian prickly pear.

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