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Astrophytum capricorne
About
Astrophytum capricorne, the goat's horn cactus, is a species of flowering plant in the cactus family Cactaceae, that is native to the Coahuila regions of Northern Mexico. Growing to 50 centimetres (20 in) tall by 10 centimetres (3.9 in) wide in a ball or oval shape, it is grey-green in colour with 7 to 9 prominent ribs, very long twisted spines and yellow flowers with a red centre in summer.
- Family
- Cactaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Astrophytum capricorne
- Slug
- astrophytum-capricorne
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Genus
- Astrophytum
- Species
- capricorne
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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