Cactaceae FAMILY Least Concern

Melocactus curvispinus

Edibility

3/5

Medicinal

1/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Cultivation Details

HabitEvergreen Perennial

Growth—

Melocactus curvispinus is found in arid and semi-arid lands of tropical and subtropical zones at elevations up to 1,250 metres^[1].

Propagation

Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Melocactus+curvispinus>

Pollinators

Humming Birds, Bees, Autgamous

References

[1]IUCN Red List of Threatened Species — http://www.iucnredlist.org/ ↩︎A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat.
[2]Las Cactáceae de Guatemala — Véliz M.E. · Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Guatemala · 2008 · ISBN 99922-2-551-3 ↩︎
[3]The genus Melocactus (Cactaceae) in Central and South America — Taylor N.P. · 1991 ↩︎
[4]Food Plants in the Americas: A Survey of the Domesticated, Cultivated, and Wild Plants Used for Human Food in North, — Kermath B.M.; Bennett B.C.' Pulsipher L.M. · 2014 ↩︎A pre-publication draft of an amazing, on-going work first started in 1985. It contains information on more than 3,900 taxa from the Americas - from Arctic regions to the Tropics