Skip to content

Plants › cacti

Chihuahuan Beehive

Cochemiea conoidea

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) luispastranamx, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

24 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Mexico.January 66, February 57, March 98, April 143, May 132, June 168, July 162, August 82, September 120, October 85, November 53, December 78.
Mexico1,244
Coahuila de Zaragoza337
United States276
Texas276
San Luis Potosi273
Nuevo Leon272
Queretaro de Arteaga119
Guanajuato89
Hidalgo73
Zacatecas56

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Cactus growth formDescends from the cactus family.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
Orderpinks, cactuses, and allies · Caryophyllales
Familycacti · Cactaceae
GenusCochemiea

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Chihuahuan Beehive with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.