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Astrophytum asterias is a species of cactus in the genus Astrophytum, and is native to small parts of Texas in the United States and Mexico. Common names include sand dollar cactus , sea urchin cactus , star cactus and star peyote .
Sand dollar cactus, sea urchin cactus, star peyote: small parts of Texas in the United States and Mexico. Astrophytum capricorne (A.Dietr.) Britton & Rose: Goat's horn cactus: Coahuila regions of Northern Mexico. Astrophytum caput-medusae D.R.Hunt: Nuevo León, Mexico Astrophytum coahuilense (H.Moeller) Kanfer: Coahuila and Durango, Mexico
Ariocarpus fissuratus is widespread in southwest Texas from southeastern Hudspeth County to the Pecos River and in the Mexican states of Coahuila, Chihuahua, Durango, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, and Zacatecas at elevations around 500 and 1,170 meters. Plants grow on dry limestone plains, ridges and low, rocky hills of limestone chips. [7]
Echinocereus dasyacanthus is cultivated as an ornamental plant, for use in desert native plant natural landscaping, or as a house plant and in a greenhouse. As the Texas Rainbow cactus is a smaller cacti species, it can be easier to care for. Growing conditions. Texas rainbow cactus requires little to no maintenance for growing.
This is a list [1] of edible plants in the family Cactaceae. Acanthocereus tetragonus, the sword pear, Browningia candelaris, [2] Carnegiea gigantea, the Saguaro, Cereus repandus - California and Florida; genus Corryocactus (also known as Erdisia), the tasty berrylike C. brevistylis, C. pulquiensis, and C. erectus; Coryphantha. C. robbinsorum ...
The cane cholla's range is the arid regions of Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas, south to Durango, Zacatecas, and San Luis Potosí. [5] It occurs at altitudes from 1,200 to 2,300 m (3,900 to 7,500 ft) and is hardy for a cactus (USDA Zone 5A).
Common names for the genus include star-grass, [4] star lily, yellow stars, African potato, [2] and stars. [5] The genus is the largest of the Hypoxidaceae [ 6 ] [ 7 ] and has its centre of variation in South Africa, [ 6 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] where it occurs in open undisturbed grasslands. [ 8 ]
Plants are usually solitary, but may form clumps. [2] It typically grows to about 6 to 10 centimeters in diameter, growing to 50 cm (20 in) tall, it is a perennial with succulent stems with a blue or gray-green body that is somewhat felty at the top and often thorny. The cactus has 8 to 13 straight or twisted ribs, each divided into crookedly ...