Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Big Bend Foxtail Cactus being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Escobaria sneedii
- Escobaria duncanii
- Escobaria villardii
- Mammilloydia candida
- Escobaria emskoetteriana
- Escobaria tuberculosa
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Caryophyllales
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Genus
- Escobaria
- Species
- Escobaria dasyacantha
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