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Botanical details
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Native to the UK
- No
- Potentially harmful
- Genus
Astrophytum
- Genus description
Astrophytum are compact perennial cacti with ribbed, spherical or columnar stems bearing woolly, sometimes also shortly spiny areoles, and large, solitary, funnel-shaped flowers in summer, followed by red or green berries
- Name status
Correct
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