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Homalocephala texensis
Also called Devil's Head, Devil's Pincushion
Horse crippler is a solitary, globe-shaped desert cactus from the Chihuahuan Desert, grown for its heavily spined, ribbed stems and pink-to-white flowers. The key to growing it is strong sun, sharp drainage and very sparing watering.
Homalocephala texensis, synonyms including Echinocactus texensis, also known as the horse crippler or devil's pincushion, is a cactus in the subfamily Cactoideae. It is native to the United States and Mexico.
Homalocephala texensis is native to the Chihuahuan Desert, found in the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas, as well as in New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas in the United States at elevations between 0 and 1400 meters. This species is found growing in scrubland, limestone hills and oak woodlands.
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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.
