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Harrisia aboriginum; photograph (c) Claire Herzog, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Claire Herzog, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2020-06-11

Harrisia aboriginum Small ex Britton & Rose

Cactaceae · Florida · listed by its family as a cactus or succulent

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Harrisia aboriginum Small ex Britton & Rose: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, Small, 1920.

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Summary

Harrisia aboriginum (commonly known as the west-coast prickly apple, prickly applecactus, yellow prickly apple, and aboriginal prickly apple) is a species of columnar cactus endemic to peninsular Florida, on the Gulf Coast of the counties of Lee, Sarasota County, and Charlotte. Only 12 occurrences are known, and the species is threatened by horticultural collection, shading from fire suppression, competition from invasive flora, and most of all habitat destruction. It is a federally listed endangered species of the United States.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Harrisia aboriginum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent, listed under the family Cactaceae in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent shrub or tree”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
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 family Cactaceae in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent shrub or tree”. 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

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 34 of the 35 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeFlorida · 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).
Map marker27.016, -82.532 · in the densest population, 35 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“succulent shrub or tree” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 35 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 8 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 7 km away. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 34 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 35 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0 (2); (c) Claire Herzog, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) Fluff Berger, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA).

Other Harrisia 13 in the reference

Harrisia adscendens Harrisia adscendens Cactaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedHarrisia bonplandii Harrisia bonplandii Giant Red Dragon Apple Cactus Photo: CC BY, Barry StewartHarrisia brookii Harrisia brookii Brook's dildo Photo: CC BY-SA, Stephanie DolrenryHarrisia caymanensis Harrisia caymanensis Cactaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedHarrisia divaricata Harrisia divaricata Cactaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedHarrisia eriophora Harrisia eriophora Fragrant prickly-apple Photo: CC BY, Yoannis DomínguezHarrisia fragrans Harrisia fragrans Caribbean apple cactus Photo: CC0, author not statedHarrisia gracilis Harrisia gracilis Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Joshua HallHarrisia martinii Harrisia martinii Moon cactus Photo: CC BY-SA, Ruth PalssonHarrisia pomanensis Harrisia pomanensis Midnight-lady Photo: CC BY, Pablo H CapovillaHarrisia regelii Harrisia regelii Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Tomás TamagnoHarrisia tetracantha Harrisia tetracantha Cactaceae Photo: CC0, author not stated all 14 ›

Names & registers

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The record

Family
Cactaceae
Described by
Small ex Britton & Rose
Native to
Florida
Wild records
35 in range · 8 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF's key 5384198 is Harrisia aboriginum Small, 1920; the page links Kew's Harrisia aboriginum Small ex Britton & Rose, and the name is cited as Kew cites it
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
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. Records came from 3 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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