Geohintonia mexicana Glass & W.A.Fitz Maur.
Cactaceae
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Summary
Geohintonia mexicana is a species of cacti, the only species in the genus Geohintonia. This genus is named after its discoverer George S. Hinton. As its specific epithet suggests, the plant is found in Mexico, where it grows on gypsum hills near Galeana.
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About the genus · Geohintonia
Geohintonia mexicana is a species of cacti, the only species in the genus Geohintonia. This genus is named after its discoverer George S. Hinton. As its specific epithet suggests, the plant is found in Mexico, where it grows on gypsum hills near Galeana.
Text from Wikipedia, “Geohintonia”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.
Also known as Aztekium mexicanum (Glass & W.A.Fitz Maur.) Barmon & Corman; Echinocactus mexicanus (Glass & W.A.Fitz Maur.) Halda.
Cultivation
Grouped as a cactus or succulent by Cactaceae, which is usually but not always one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.
Climate across the habitat
Natural habitat
Photographs
Photographs: (c) Alan Rockefeller, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) Aurélien Rovero, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3).
Photographs: iNaturalist and GBIF media did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.
Papers naming this species
Works whose title or abstract names Geohintonia mexicana, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.
History & registers
Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
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