Cactaceae
Old man cactus
Cephalocereus senilis
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Genus
- Cephalocereus
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Common names
By language (14)
- Chinese
- 翁柱, 翁丸, 白头翁
- Dutch
- Grijsaardcactus
- English
- Old man cactus
- Finnish
- Vaarinkaktus, Vaarinkaktukset
- French
- Tête de vieillard
- German
- Greisenhaupt
- Macedonian
- Старец
- Persian
- کاکتوس پیرمرد
- Polish
- Cefalocereus starczy
- Slovak
- Hlavovec starecký
- Spanish
- Barba de Viejo, Cabeza de Viejo, Viejito
- Swedish
- Gubbhuvud
- Tamil
- கிழவன் கள்ளி
- Thai
- เฒ่าหัวหงอก
Synonyms
- Cactus bradypus Lehm.
- Cactus senilis Haw.
- Cephalophorus senilis (Haw.) Lem.
- Cereus bradypus (Lehm.) Steud.
- Cereus senilis (Haw.) DC.
- Echinocactus senilis (Haw.) Beaton
- Echinocactus staplesiae Tate
- Euporteria senilis (Phil.) Kreuz. & Buining
- Melocactus bradypus Lehm. ex Steud.
- Pilocereus senilis (Haw.) Lem.
- Pilocereus senilis var. cristatus Mathsson
Photos
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Photo: Leonora Enking from West Sussex, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.