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2. Opuntia fragilis - Wikipedia

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   Opuntia fragilis is a small, prostrate plant, rarely more than 10 cm (4 in) high: joints tumid, fragile, easily detached, oval, elliptical, or subglobose, 3–5 cm (1–2 in) long and nearly as thick as broad, bright green: areoles 0.6–1.3 cm (1 ⁄ 4 – 1 ⁄ 2 in) apart, with whitish wool and a few white to yellow bristles, which are much longer and more abundant on older joints; spines 1 ...

3. Ariocarpus fissuratus - Wikipedia

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   This cactus, flattened to spherical bodies 1.5 to 10 cm high and up to 10 (rarely up to 15) cm in diameter, consists of many small tubercles growing from a large succulent tap root. They are usually solitary, almost always remain unbranched, rarely giving rise to side shoots from old areoles. The plant is greyish-green in color, but the flat ...

4. Ariocarpus - Wikipedia

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   Ariocarpus is a small genus of succulent, subtropical plants of the family Cactaceae.. It comes from limestone hills of Rio Grande in the south of Texas (Ariocarpus fissuratus) and also the north and the center of Mexico (all other species including A. fissuratus forms known as A. loydii and A. fissuratus var. intermedius) with strong sunshine exposures.

5. Pediocactus simpsonii - Wikipedia

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   Pediocactus simpsonii, known by the common names mountain cactus, snowball cactus, and mountain ball cactus, is a relatively common cactus that has adapted to survive in cold and dry environments in high elevation areas of the western United States. It can be found at higher elevations than any other cactus in North America.

6. Mila caespitosa - Wikipedia

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   The genus includes cacti that remain small, grow like a cereus, and sometimes sprout. The cacti with cylindrical, prostrate stems, about 30 cm long by 4 cm in diameter, they grow forming colonies. It has numerous low ribs covered with spines. The flowers are diurnal yellow. The fruits are small, globular, naked, green or reddish and juicy.

7. Ariocarpus agavoides - Wikipedia

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   This cactus is a small rosette-shaped succulent plant with short, stiff, dark green tubercles which closely resemble the leaves of a small Aloe or Haworthia. The plant grows geophytically with dark green to brownish bodies that are almost completely hidden in the ground and have a diameter of 3 to 8 centimeters.