Gold Lace Cactus
Mammillaria elongata DC.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 15 cm
- wide
- 30 cm
Cactaceae
Formerly Cactus anguineus, Cactus densus, Cactus echinata, Cactus intertextus, and 27 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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
- Desert or dry shrublandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico (Guanajuato to Veracruz)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 15 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Spread
- 30 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (10)
- Spanish
- Biznaga elongada
- Chinese (China)
- 金手指
- Japanese
- キンテマリ（金手毬）, コガネツカサ（黄金司）, 細長丸
- Russian
- Маммиллярия удлинённая
- Thai
- นิ้วทอง
- Lithuanian
- Pailgoji mamiliarija
- Finnish
- seppelsyyläkaktus
- Slovak
- mamilária predĺžená
- Turkish
- Altın Top Kaktüs
- Chinese
- 金手指, 黄金丸
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- 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
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Mammillaria elongata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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