Blood Red Cactus

This big cactus grows up to 72 feet (21.9 meters) tall. The wispy stem is yellow-green, and is covered in brittle blood red spines. The mushroom-shaped body is pink-red, and is covered in thick bunches of flexible faded red spines.

It is very slow growing, taking 35 years to reach maturity. Once mature, and only under the right conditions, several flowers with petals that are generally green; each flower tends to be a variation of this colour grow at the top, reappearing after 10 years, but only when the conditions are right again. The flower head is an uncoordinated mess of up to 50 petals. It has a fairly strong scent that smells like bleach.

The cactus's skin is delicate, the purple flesh is waxy, and the blood red sap is thin.