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Echinocereus
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Echinocereus

Echinocereus is a genus of ribbed, usually small to medium-sized, cylindrical cacti, comprising about 70 species native to the southern United States and Mexico in very sunny, rocky places. Usually the flowers are large and the fruit edible.

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7 branches of this group, most-observed first

Erecti

sectionErecti

Costati

sectionCostati

Reichenbachia

sectionReichenbachia

Echinocereus

sectionEchinocereus

Wilcoxia

sectionWilcoxia

Pulchellus

sectionPulchellus

Subinermes

sectionSubinermes

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 971840.