Origin and Habitat: Garden origin (Nursery produced cultivar).

• Echinopsis haematantha subs. hualfinensis f. variegata hort.

• Echinopsis haematantha (Speg.) D.R.Hunt
• Echinocactus haematanthus Speg.
• Lobivia haematantha (Speg.) Britton & Rose
• Echinopsis amblayensis (Rausch) Friedrich
• Echinopsis densispina var. amblayensis (Rausch) J.G.Lamb.
• Lobivia amblayensis Rausch
• Lobivia haematantha var. amblayensis (Rausch) G.D.Rowley
• Lobivia haematantha subvar. amblayensis (Rausch) Rausch
• Echinopsis amblayensis var. albispina (Rausch) Friedrich
• Lobivia amblayensis var. albispina Rausch
• Echinopsis haematantha subs. chorrillosensis (Rausch) J.G.Lamb.
• Lobivia chorrillosensis Rausch
• Lobivia haematantha subs. chorrillosensis (Rausch) Rausch
• Lobivia haematantha var. chorrillosensis (Rausch) Rausch
• Lobivia haematantha subvar. chorrillosensis (Rausch) Rausch
• Echinopsis haematantha subs. elongata (Backeb.) J.G.Lamb.
• Echinopsis elongata (Backeb.) H.Friedrich & Glaetzle
• Lobivia elongata Backeb.
• Lobivia haematantha var. elongata (Backeb.) Rausch
• Echinopsis haematantha subs. hualfinensis (Rausch) J.G.Lamb.
• Echinopsis hualfinensis (Rausch) Friedrich & Glaetzle
• Lobivia haematantha var. hualfinensis (Rausch) Rausch
• Lobivia hualfinensis Rausch
• Echinopsis haematantha subs. hualfinensis f. variegata hort.
• Echinopsis haematantha subs. jasimanensis (Rausch) J.G.Lamb.
• Lobivia haematantha var. jasimanensis Rausch
• Echinopsis haematantha var. kuehnrichii (Frič) J.G.Lamb.
• Andenea kuehnrichii Frič & Kreuz.
• Echinopsis kuehnrichii (Frič) Friedrich & Glaetzle
• Hymenorebutia kuehnrichii (Frič) F.Ritter
• Lobivia cincero Frič in Möller
• Lobivia haematantha subs. kuehnrichii (Frič) Rausch ex G.D.Rowley
• Lobivia haematantha var. kuehnrichii (Frič) Rausch
• Lobivia kuehnrichii Frič in Möller
• Lobivia drijveriana Backeb.
• Hymenorebutia drijveriana (Backeb.) F.Ritter
• Lobivia haematantha var. drijveriana (Backeb.) G.D.Rowley
• Lobivia drijveriana var. astranthema Backeb.
• Lobivia drijveriana var. aurantiaca Backeb.
• Lobivia drijveriana var. nobilis Backeb.
• Lobivia haematantha var. fechseri (Rausch) Rausch
• Lobivia haematantha subvar. fechseri (Rausch) Rausch
• Lobivia hualfinensis var. fechseri Rausch
• Lobivia mirabunda Backeb.

Description: The classical Echinopsis haematanthaSN|12412]]SN|12412]] (syn: Lobivia haematanthaSN|12414]]SN|12414]] ) is a geophyte cactus, usually solitary, or slowly branching to form small clumps with colourful flowers. The variegated form (Echinopsis haematanthaSN|12412]]SN|12412]] f. variegata) has sectors, patches or stripes with distinct shades of yellow. A very few variegated plants sprout unpredictably time by time among normal green seedling and are very rare. Plants with variegated stems are often attractive and highly prized.
Stems: Dull green, grey-green, bluish or olive-green stripped with yellow, somewhat depressed, globose to short cylindrical. 5-8 cm tall, 5-7 cm in diameter.
Ribs: 8 to 15, vertical or slightly spiralling, somewhat tuberculate, obtuse, narrow.
Areoles: Nearly circular, 5-6 mm in diameter, white, felted.
Spines: Heavy, curving, yellowish, pink/brown, orangish dark brown or black..
Central spines: Usually 1 to 4, unequal, stouter than the radials, curly, often hooked, 3-6 cm long.
Radial spines: 6 to 12, slender ± interlacing, needle-like, and more or less appressed, 05-1cm long, pale grey with a darker yellow tip.
Flower: Diurnal, broadly funnel-form, yellow to purple with usually a white or yellowish-cream throat circle, 3-4 cm wide, inner perianth segments spatulate to obovate, obtuse, stigma lobes 9-12, white. Scales on flower tube with long wool.
Fruits: Globose to ovoid, green to brownish-violet, semidry, dehiscent.
Roots: Large taproot, carrot like.

Bibliography: Major references and further lectures
1) Nathaniel Lord Britton, Joseph Nelson Rose “Cactaceae: Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family” Courier Dover Publications, 1963
2) James Cullen, Sabina G. Knees, H. Suzanne Cubey “The European Garden Flora Flowering Plants: A Manual for the Identification of Plants Cultivated in Europe, Both Out-of-Doors and Under Glass” Cambridge University Press, 11/Aug./2011
3) David Hunt, Nigel Taylor “The New Cactus Lexicon” DH Books, 2006 ISBN 0953813444, 9780953813445.
4) Edward F. Anderson “The Cactus Family” Timber Press, 2001
5) Clive Innes, Charles Glass “Cacti” Portland House, 01/May/1991

Cultivation and Propagation: Variegated cacti are regarded as choice and difficult in cultivation, but despite that many of them are relatively easy to grow. But be aware that they cannot tolerate prolonged exposure to direct sun light (especially during the hottest summer days), so grow them in half-shade or under filtered sun. They are sometime seen as grafted plants, but some of this colourful plants (those with some chlorophyll) are able to grow on their own roots and are priced by collectors.
Soil: Use mineral well-permeable substratum with little organic matter (peat, humus).
Watering: Water sparingly from March till October, and keep perfectly dry in winter, at temperatures from 5 to 15 degrees centigrade. (In general these plants are more tender and cannot endure freezing temperatures). In the rest period no high atmospheric humidity!!
Propagation: By seeds, grafting or cutting. Because the variegation is due to the presence of two kinds of plant tissue, propagating the plant must be by a vegetative method of propagation that preserves both types of tissue in relation to each other. A most common way way to cultivate this partially de-coloured cultivars is to graft them onto another cactus which has chlorophyll and which will provide sugar to the mutant scion. The chlorophyll containing bottom part of the graft, called the stock, can be any number of different columnar cactus species.
Remarks: Seeds from variegated parents often give raise to some variegated seedlings too.