Defined trunk, 200 x 20 cm, grayish to blackish, spiny, bark with scales in wavy longitudinal bands.

Widely obovate cladodios, 22-35 x 15-25 x 1–3 cm, bright, greenish yellow to dark green blue, coated with white wax, pruinous.

Thorns 3–8 cm, subulated, divergent, not adpressed, flattened but not crooked, white with yellow translucent apex.

It can also be found in temperate and cold weather zones, where the humidity conditions are highest, these climates are characteristic of some areas of central Mexico .

This species mainly inhabits areas where there is volcanic and stony type soil at altitudes from sea level to 1900m.