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Cochemiea thornberi
Also called Cluster Fishhook Cactus, Clustered Pincushion, Slender Pincushion
Cochemiea thornberi is a species of cactus known by the common names Thornber's fishhook cactus and Thornber's nipple cactus. It is native to Arizona in the United States and Sonora in Mexico.
This plant is associated with nurse plants. It often grows beneath the branches of Ambrosia dumosa. The habitat is desert scrub. There are two main population areas in Arizona, one in the Avra Valley and Saguaro National Park and one on the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation. This species was abundant in the Avra Valley up until the 1930s until a freeze which decimated the population. There are now a total of about 600 plants in all the populations together.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cochemiea thornberi by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
