Cactaceae
Corncob cactus
Pelecyphora tuberculosa
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Genus
- Pelecyphora
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Common names
By language (5)
- Chinese
- 松球丸
- Dutch
- Knoestcactus
- English
- Corncob cactus, Incense cory cactus, White column foxtail cactus, Whitecolumn foxtail cactus
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- M. tuberculosa
- Spanish
- Biznaga-Escobar Rómbica
Synonyms
- Cactus tuberculosus (Engelm.) Kuntze
- Coryphantha dasyacantha var. varicolor (Tiegel) L.D.Benson
- Coryphantha strobiliformis var. durispina (Quehl) L.D.Benson
- Coryphantha tuberculosa (Engelm.) Orcutt
- Coryphantha tuberculosa (Engelm.) A.Berger
- Coryphantha tuberculosa var. varicolor (Tiegel) A.D.Zimmerman
- Coryphantha varicolor Tiegel
- Escobaria dasyacantha var. varicolor (Tiegel) D.R.Hunt
- Escobaria strobiliformis subsp. sisperai Halda & Sladk.
- Escobaria strobiliformis var. durispina (Quehl) Bravo
- Escobaria tuberculosa (Engelm.) Britton & Rose
- Escobaria tuberculosa subsp. tuberculosa
- Escobaria tuberculosa subsp. varicolor (Tiegel) Lüthy
- Escobaria tuberculosa var. durispina (Quehl) Børgesen
- Escobaria tuberculosa var. pubescens (Quehl) Y.Itô
- Escobaria tuberculosa var. varicolor (Tiegel) S.Brack & K.D.Heil
- Escobaria varicolor Tiegel
- Mammillaria strobiliformis Engelm.
- Mammillaria strobiliformis f. durispina (Quehl) Schelle
- Mammillaria strobiliformis f. pubescens (Quehl) Schelle
- Mammillaria strobiliformis f. rufispina (Quehl) Schelle
- Mammillaria strobiliformis var. durispina Quehl
- Mammillaria strobiliformis var. pubescens Quehl
- Mammillaria strobiliformis var. rufispina Quehl
- Mammillaria tuberculosa Engelm.
- Mammillaria tuberculosa Engelm.
Photos
Photo: Michael Wolf, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Patrick Alexander from Las Cruces, NM, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Sue Schwab, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Patrick Alexander from Las Cruces, NM, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Alex Abair, CC BY 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.