Cactaceae
Elephant's tooth
Coryphantha elephantidens
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Genus
- Coryphantha
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Common names
By language (4)
- Chinese
- 象牙丸
- Dutch
- Ivoorkrooncactus
- English
- Elephant's tooth, Starry ball
- Lithuanian
- Pūkuotoji korifanta
Synonyms
- Cactus elephantidens (Lem.) Kuntze
- Cactus recurvispinus (de Vriese) Kuntze
- Cactus sulcolanatus (Lem.) Kuntze
- Coryphantha elephantidens subsp. elephantidens
- Coryphantha elephantidens var. barciae L.Bremer
- Coryphantha garessii L.Bremer
- Coryphantha recurvispina (de Vriese) L.Bremer
- Coryphantha sulcolanata (Lem.) Lem.
- Echinocactus elephantidens (Lem.) Poselg.
- Echinocactus sulcolanatus (Lem.) Poselg.
- Mammillaria cornimamma N.E.Br.
- Mammillaria elephantidens Lem.
- Mammillaria elephantidens var. bumamma K.Schum.
- Mammillaria recurvispina de Vriese
- Mammillaria sulcolanata Lem.
Flowers
- In flower
- July to September (from 27 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Janitzio Pech Zúñiga, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: José Javier Barrios Flores, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: ecos de pedra from Abrantes, Portugal, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Ricardo Betancourt Sánchez, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Leonora Enking from West Sussex, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Bodo Nuñez Oberg, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Rafael Cano, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Amante Darmanin from Malta, CC BY 2.0, 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.