''Cochemiea conoidea'', common name Texas cone cactus or Chihuahuan beehive, is a species of cactus native to southern United States to central Mexico.
Description
''Cochemiea conoidea'' is an solitary, unbranched cylindrical cactus up to 24 cm (9.6 inches) tall and up to 8 cm (3.2 inches) in diameter. The somewhat yellowish-green to green shoots, usually with whitish woolly tips, are spherical to cylindrical, with diameters of 3 to 6 centimeters and heights of 5 to 24 centimeters. Ribs are weakly defined or absent. The cone-shaped warts, 3 to 10 millimeters long and 6 to 10 millimeters wide, are prominent. Dimorphic areoles, 3 to 5 millimeters in size, are spaced 8 to 12 millimeters apart and have an areolar groove. The single central spine, sometimes absent, is black to reddish-brown, straight, and protruding, measuring 5 to 25 millimeters long. There are 15 to 16 radial spines.
The funnel-shaped flowers are purple-red, 2 to 3 centimeters long, and 4 to 6 centimeters in diameter. Outer
tepals
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of the flowers are whitish with green midveins; inner tepals bright pink-rose to magenta. Fruits are pale yellow-olive with black seeds.
Distribution
''Cochemiea conoidea'' is found from western
Texas
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and to the Mexican states of
Coahuila
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Durango
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,
Nuevo León
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San Luis Potosí
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It ...
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Tamaulipas
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, and
Zacatecas
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growing at elevations of 550 to 2400 meters. It is a part of the
Chihuahuan Desert desert scrub and the
Tamaulipan thorn scrub growing in limestone.
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Lophophora williamsii
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Mammillaria pottsii
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Mammillaria lasiacantha
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Distribution
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Pelecyphora strobiliformis
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Echinocactus platyacanthus
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Ferocactus pilosus'', ''
Stenocactus crispatus'', ''
Myrtillocactus geometrizans
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Thelocactus hexaedrophorus
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Description
''Thelocactus'' species are globe-shaped, short and cylindrical. The ...
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Coryphantha erecta'', ''
Coryphantha octacantha'', ''
Stenocereus dumortieri'', ''
Cylindropuntia tunicata
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Cylindropuntia imbricata
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Opuntia streptacantha'', ''
Agave salmiana
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Agave lechuguilla
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Description
The plant reproduces most ...
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Agave stricta
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Euphorbia antisyphilitica
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Hechtia glomerata
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Yucca filifera
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History
It was discovered in 1840 in northeastern Mexico between Saltillo and Parras () on 19 May 1847 by merchant and explorer Josi ...
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Taxonomy
First described as ''Mammillaria conoidea'' by Augustin-Pyrame de Candolle in 1828, the species name "conoidea" is Latin for "conical," referring to the shape of the shoots.
Peter B. Breslin and Lucas C. Majure reclassified it under the genus ''Cochemiea'' in 2021.
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conoidea
Conoidea is a Taxonomic rank, superfamily of predatory sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusc, mollusks within the suborder Hypsogastropoda. This superfamily is a very large group of marine mollusks, estimated at 340 recent valid gen ...
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