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Cylindropuntia leptocaulis, the desert Christmas cactus, desert Christmas cholla, pencil cactus, or tasajillo, is a species of cholla cactus. Distribution and habitat [ edit ]
Sclerocactus brevispinus is a rare species of cactus known by the common name Pariette cactus. It is endemic to Utah in the United States, where it is known only from the Pariette Draw, a draw in Duchesne County. It is threatened by a number of processes and human activities.
Echinocactus platyacanthus is a member of the cactus family Cactaceae. It is also known as the giant barrel cactus, golden barrel cactus, giant viznaga, or biznaga de dulce, [2] and its Nahuatl (Aztec) name is huitzli nahual. [citation needed]. It is native to central Mexico in the Chihuahuan Desert. [1] This species is the largest of the ...
Urban development and highways have destroyed cactus habitats in parts of Mexico, New Mexico and Arizona, including the Sonoran Desert. The conversion of land to agriculture has affected populations of Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus in Mexico, where dry plains were plowed for maize cultivation, and of Copiapoa and Eulychnia in Chile , where valley ...
At the apex of the adult plants, there is a wooly cephalium, white or shaded with yellow or grey. The terminal cephalium, up to 4 centimeters high, is slightly depressed. It consists of white, yellowish to grayish white wool and may have bristly spines.
Blossfeldia is a genus of cactus (family Cactaceae) containing only one species, Blossfeldia liliputana, [1] native to South America in northwestern Argentina [2] (Jujuy, [3] Salta, Tucumán, Catamarca and Mendoza Provinces) [4] and southern Bolivia [2] (Santa Cruz and Potosí Departments). [4]
Sclerocactus johnsonii (synonyms including Echinomastus johnsonii) is a species of cactus known by the common names Johnson's beehive cactus and Johnson's fishhook cactus. It is native to the southwestern United States from eastern California to Utah and northwestern Mexico, [1] where it can be found in desert scrub habitat. It produces an egg ...
Ariocarpus fissuratus (formerly known as Anhalonium fissuratus) is a species of cactus found in small numbers in northern Mexico and Texas in the United States. Common names include living rock cactus, false peyote, chautle, [3] dry whiskey and star cactus. [4]