Chicken Pox
Echinocereus reichenbachii (Terscheck) Haage
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 19 cm
- wide
- —
Cactaceae
Also called Bailey's Hedgehog Cactus, Black Lace Cactus, Classen's Cactus, Fitch's Hedgehog, Lace Cactus
Formerly Echinocactus reichenbachii
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Succulent subshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SW. Kansas to C. Texas and NE. MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 8 cm to 30 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- Pink, purpleRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (2)
- Spanish
- Órgano-pequeño de Colores
- Chinese
- 丽光丸
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Echinocereus reichenbachii (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.