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Silver Ball Cactus
Plate 1 of 10. (c) Martin Coronel Varela, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Martin Coronel Varela · via iNaturalist
IUCN VU · Vulnerable

Silver Ball Cactus

Parodia scopa

Parodia scopa syn. Notocactus scopa (silver ball cactus) is a species of flowering plant in the cactus family Cactaceae, native to upland southern Brazil and Uruguay. It is a ball- or cylinder-shaped cactus growing to 5–50 cm (2–20 in) tall by 10 cm (4 in) broad, with a spiny, woolly crown and pale yellow flowers in summer.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 441727.