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Ferocactus hamatacanthus; photograph Amante Darmanin from Malta, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BYAmante Darmanin from Malta, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Ferocactus hamatacanthus (Muehlenpf.) Britton & Rose

Cactaceae · New Mexico, Texas +3 · listed by its genus as a cactus or succulent

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Ferocactus hamatacanthus, photograph Amante Darmanin from Malta, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsFerocactus hamatacanthus, photograph Amante Darmanin from Malta, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsFerocactus hamatacanthus, photograph Amante Darmanin from Malta, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsFerocactus hamatacanthus, photograph Amante Darmanin from Malta, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsFerocactus hamatacanthus, photograph Amante Darmanin from Malta, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsFerocactus hamatacanthus, photograph Amante Darmanin from Malta, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12 photographs ›

Summary

Ferocactus hamatacanthus, commonly named Turk's head, is a barrel cactus in the tribe Cacteae.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Ferocactus hamatacanthus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Ferocactus

Ferocactus is a genus of large barrel-shaped cacti, mostly with large spines and small flowers. There are about 30 species included in the genus. They are found in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Ferocactus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent, listed under the genus Ferocactus in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent subshrub”.

Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so no sheet is derived.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Ferocactus in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent subshrub”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

Not checked. GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so none is derived here. This is not a statement that no climate exists.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Records not checked: GBIF's records were not asked, as said under the name.
NativeNew Mexico, Texas, Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Gulf · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“succulent subshrub” · “desert or dry shrubland” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedGBIF's records not checked, as said under the name: so there are no points on the map, no map marker and no climate across the range; the range is Kew's. Not a statement that no record exists.

Photographs

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Photographs: Amante Darmanin from Malta, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (6).

Similar habitat climate Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the nearest habitat climates are read from the climate they give.

Other Ferocactus 21 in the reference

Ferocactus acanthodes Cactaceae Ferocactus chrysacanthus Ferocactus chrysacanthus Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Jose Luis Leon de la LuzFerocactus diguetii Ferocactus diguetii Santa Catalina barrel cactus Photo: CC0, author not statedFerocactus emoryi Ferocactus emoryi Emory's barrel cactus Photo: CC BY, Sue CarnahanFerocactus fordii Ferocactus fordii Ford barrel cactus Photo: CC BY, Rosario DouglasFerocactus gracilis Ferocactus gracilis Fire barrel cactus Photo: CC BY, Jose Luis Leon de la LuzFerocactus haematacanthus Ferocactus haematacanthus Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Juan Pablo Bonilla SegoviaFerocactus herrerae Ferocactus herrerae Cactaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Jose Antonio Serra MaríFerocactus johnstonianus Ferocactus johnstonianus Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Sula VanderplankFerocactus latispinus Ferocactus latispinus Devil's-tongue cactus Photo: CC BY, Alexis López HernándezFerocactus lindsayi Ferocactus lindsayi Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, P Gonzalez ZamoraFerocactus macrodiscus Ferocactus macrodiscus Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Roderick Cameron all 22 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Echinocactus hamatacanthus; Hamatocactus hamatacanthus. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Cactaceae
Described by
(Muehlenpf.) Britton & Rose
Native to
New Mexico, Texas, Mexico Central +2
Records
not checked · GBIF's records were not asked: the page has no GBIF key

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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Ferocactus hamatacanthus (Muehlenpf.) Britton & Rose (plant_name_id 2808164), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
Habitat climate climate not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked, and the habitat climate is read only from them
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 103636-2, POWO 103636-2
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence.

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