Escobaria vivipara: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Caryophyllales
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Genus
- Escobaria
- Species
- Escobaria vivipara
- Scientific Name
- Escobaria vivipara
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Escobaria vivipara
Pelecyphora vivipara is a species of cactus known by several common names, including spinystar, viviparous foxtail cactus, pincushion cactus and ball cactus. It is native to North America, where certain varieties can be found from Mexico to Canada. Most of these varieties are limited to the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts. The species epithet "vivipara" was likely a reference to the plants tendency to produce offsets, or "pups", but there is no evidence that it is truly viviparous.
...Escobaria vivipara in languages:
- English
- Viviparous Foxtail Cactus
- English
- Spinystar
- English
- Beehive Cactus
- English
- Foxtail Pincushion Cactus
- English
- Ball Pricklypear
- English
- Ball Prickly-pear
- English
- Ball Cactus
- English
- Pincushion Cactus
- French
- mamillaire vivipare
- Japanese
- ホッキョクマル(北極丸)
- Russian
- Эскобария живородящая
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Escobaria abdita
- Escobaria albicolumnaria
- Escobaria alversonii
- Escobaria chihuahuensis
- Escobaria chlorantha
- Escobaria cubensis
- Escobaria dasyacantha
- Escobaria duncanii
- Escobaria emskoetteriana
- Escobaria hesteri
- Escobaria laredoi
- Escobaria lloydii
- Escobaria minima
- Escobaria missouriensis
- Escobaria organensis
- Escobaria robbinsiorum
- Escobaria sandbergii
- Escobaria sneedii
- Escobaria tuberculosa
- Escobaria villardii
- Escobaria vivipara
- Escobaria zilziana































































































































































