Chihuahua Pineapple Cactus - Echinomastus intertextus
North Wicks Canyon
East of Hillsboro, NM, USA
Mid-March 2017
The Chihuahua Pineapple Cactus plants shown here started to bloom in mid-March, 2017. Scientific synonyms for Echinomastus intertextus include Echinocactus intertextus, Neolloydia intertexta, Scierocactus intertextus, Pediocactus intertextus, and Echinomastus dasyacanthus. Its English common names include Chihuahua Pineapple Cactus, Early-bloomer Cactus, White Fishhook Cactus, Interlacing Spine Cactus, White-flowered Viznagita, and Woven-spine Pineapple Cactus.
This species was first described, as Echinocactus intertextus, by Englemann in 1856. There are two recognized varieties; E. i. var. dasyacanthus and E. i. var. intertextus. The current description of this species was made by N. L. Britton & J. N. Rose in 1922 in their four volume The Cactaceae - Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family. Volume 3, pages 149-150, describe this species and are shown below. The internet being what it is, all four volumes are available for free in digital form.
SEINet has several photographs of live plants and of specimen sheets of this species.
The Encyclopedia of Life is one of the sources which lists this species as Scierocactus intertextus.
Apache Peak, N. of Lake Valley, Black Range, New Mexico
April 14, 2020
