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Snowball Cactus

Mammilloydia candida

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) toony_27, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

Lace-spine Nipple CactusMammillaria lasiacantha

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Mexico.

Mexico	118
San Luis Potosi	50
Coahuila de Zaragoza	27
Nuevo Leon	18
Tamaulipas	12
Durango	7
Guanajuato	3
Zacatecas	1

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

Kingdom	Plants · Plantae
Phylum	Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Class	Dicots · Magnoliopsida
Order	pinks, cactuses, and allies · Caryophyllales
Family	cacti · Cactaceae
Genus	Mammilloydia

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
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