1. Usually unbranched usually spineless cactus covered with warty tubercles and having magenta flowers and white or green fruit; resembles the related mescal; northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States
   "The Ariocarpus fissuratus cactus was perfectly camouflaged among the stones";
   - living rock

Type of: cactus

Part of: Ariocarpus, genus Ariocarpus

Encyclopedia: Ariocarpus fissuratus