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Epithelantha cryptica is a small, mostly solitary desert cactus from Coahuila, Mexico, with a compact globular stem covered in fine white spines. It grows best in very sharp-draining, gritty soil in bright sun and needs to stay dry for much of the year.
Epithelantha cryptica is a species of Epithelantha found in Mexico.
This species is endemic to the state of Coahuila, northeastern Mexico. Its natural habitat includes deserts and dry scrublands, sloping hills with stony, gravelly soils mixed with a small amount of organic material growing in crevices of hills and rocky ridges where drainage is good and competition is minimal. Plants are found growing along with Epithelantha greggii , Echinocereus pectinatus, Echinocereus enneacanthus, Pelecyphora macromeris, Sclerocactus scheeri, and Sclerocactus mariposensis
Pingpong-ball cactus · Epithelantha greggii · Epithelantha ilariae · Pingpong-ball cactus · Epithelantha pachyrhiza · Epithelantha polycephala · Epithelantha potosina · Epithelantha pulchra · Epithelantha spinosior · Pingpong-ball cactus
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Epithelantha cryptica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
