Ariocarpus

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Read about Ariocarpus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Ariocarpus (Aria-like fruit). Cactaceae. Ton- shaped succulent desert plants, mostly buried in the ground, the broad aerial part covered with angular tubercles bearing no spines: fls. from the center of the plant, large, white or pink: fr. small, naked; seeds black, roughened.—A genus of 6 or 7 species confined to Cent. Mex., except a single species in S. W. Texas. A very distinct genus, easily distinguished from Mamillaria by its tubercles.


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Read about Ariocarpus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Anhalonium. Cactaceae. A name used in the first edition of this Cyclopedia, but now given place to the slightly older name Ariocarpus, which see. A. Williamsii and A. Lewinii sometimes referred to Echinocactus or to Mamillaria, are here treated under Lophophora, which see.


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