Cochemiea mazatlanensis(K.Schum.) D.Aquino & Dan.Sánchez

WFO wfo-0001302738 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Cochemiea mazatlanensis, photographed by P Gonzalez Zamora
fig. a P Gonzalez Zamora, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-12-28 / obs. 112723288
Cochemiea mazatlanensis, photographed by P Gonzalez Zamora
fig. b P Gonzalez Zamora, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112723156
Cochemiea mazatlanensis, photographed by P Gonzalez Zamora
fig. c P Gonzalez Zamora, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112722929
Cochemiea mazatlanensis, photographed by P Gonzalez Zamora
fig. d P Gonzalez Zamora, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112723225
Cochemiea mazatlanensis, photographed by P Gonzalez Zamora
fig. e P Gonzalez Zamora, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112723096
Cochemiea mazatlanensis, photographed by P Gonzalez Zamora
fig. f P Gonzalez Zamora, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112722865
Cochemiea mazatlanensis, photographed by P Gonzalez Zamora
fig. g P Gonzalez Zamora, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112722930
Cochemiea mazatlanensis, photographed by P Gonzalez Zamora
fig. h P Gonzalez Zamora, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112722997

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Cochemiea mazatlanensis is native: Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest Mexico NorthwestMexico Southwest
Native distribution of Cochemiea mazatlanensis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Mexico Northwest MXN NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Southwest MXS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 156 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 11.4 °C 18.0 °C 21.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 29.1 °C 30.3 °C 36.0 °C
Annual rainfall 407 mm 820 mm 983 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 4 mm 8 mm 15 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 156 research-grade observations of Cochemiea mazatlanensis that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 23 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Chilita mazatlanensis (K.Schum.) Orcutt
  • Chilita occidentalis (Britton & Rose) Orcutt
  • Ebnerella mazatlanensis (K.Schum.) Buxb.
  • Ebnerella occidentalis (Britton & Rose) Buxb.
  • Escobariopsis mazatlanensis (K.Schum.) Doweld
  • Escobariopsis mazatlanensis subsp. patonii (Bravo) Doweld
  • Mammillaria littoralis K.Brandegee
  • Mammillaria mazatlanensis K.Schum.
  • Mammillaria mazatlanensis f. patonii (Bravo) Neutel.
  • Mammillaria mazatlanensis f. sinalensis (R.T.Craig) Neutel.
  • Mammillaria mazatlanensis subsp. mazatlanensis
  • Mammillaria mazatlanensis subsp. patonii (Bravo) D.R.Hunt
  • Mammillaria mazatlanensis var. monocentra Craig
  • Mammillaria mazatlanensis var. occidentalis (Britton & Rose) Neutel.
  • Mammillaria occidentalis (Britton & Rose) Boed.
  • Mammillaria occidentalis var. patonii (Bravo) R.T.Craig
  • Mammillaria occidentalis var. sinalensis R.T.Craig
  • Mammillaria patonii (Bravo) Werderm.
  • Mammillaria patonii var. sinalensis (R.T.Craig) Backeb.
  • Neomammillaria mazatlanensis (K.Schum.) Britton & Rose
  • Neomammillaria occidentalis Britton & Rose
  • Neomammillaria patonii Bravo
  • Neomammillaria sinaloensis Rose

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.