White areoles bear one or two small brown upright spines.

The legs are grey-orange with brown spines; the first pair is orange-brown and lighter inside.

Each wrinkled lump was the size of a small bucket and bore hard brown spines.

The 3-5 reddish brown central spines have a darker tip and are 7-8 millimeters long.

The leaves have a yellow to brown terminal spine, and are generally flat, possibly with some waviness or rolling along the edges.

The pink, gray, or brown spines may be over 4 centimeters long.

The edges of the leaves have big spines and they end each in a thick brown spine.

They are violet on the inside, brown, scaly and covered with black or brown spines on the outside.

Obediently, Silence made her way across the carpet of brown, dead spines fallen from the towering trees.

Two long brown spines on the head point forward, while a pair of pinkish prongs project from the anal segment.