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Bisnaga glaucescens Erick Vélez Sánchez, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF · observed growing wild

Bisnaga glaucescens (DC.) Orcutt

Cactaceae

No habitat climate 13 photographs Cactus or succulent
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Summary

Ferocactus glaucescens, the glaucous barrel cactus, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cactaceae, native endemic to México.

Text from Wikipedia, “Ferocactus glaucescens”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

Family
Cactaceae
Described by
(DC.) Orcutt
Native to
not verified
Wild records
140 in range· 44 open

Also known as Echinocactus dietrichianus C.F.Först.; Echinocactus glaucescens DC.; Echinocactus mammillarioides Hook.; Echinocactus pfeifferi Seitz; Echinocactus pfeifferi Zucc. ex Pfeiff. and 10 more.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by Cactaceae, which is usually but not always one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Native range not verified: no WCVP distribution with native status for this name, so records cannot be told from cultivation and no habitat climate is derived.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeNo published distribution for this name.
Evidence usedNo verified native range for this name: WCVP has no entry with native status, and a checklist that only reports presence cannot tell a wild record from a garden one. The map shows 44 openly licensed records of 140 untested against any range; no map marker or climate is derived from them, and no sheet is built from them. 19 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: Erick Vélez Sánchez, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF; John Leszczynski, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF; Sandino Guerrero, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (6).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Bisnaga glaucescens, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Occurrence Download
GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Occurrence Download
GBIF.Org User (2023) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Occurrence Download
GBIF.Org User (2023) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.Org User (2023) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Other Bisnaga 2 in the reference

Bisnaga hamatacantha Cactaceae Bisnaga histrix Cactaceae

History & registers

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Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
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gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence search API
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inat.taxon not askedcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-20 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-20 (rederive)
inat.photos.wild not askedcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-20 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-20 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: not asked: 6 wild photographs already from the GBIF download
inat.photos.cultivated nothing to reportcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-20 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-20 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive)
commons nothing to reportcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-20 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-20 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive)
gbif.media answered
openalex answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20; this build: skipped

Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 7 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.