Ferocactus latispinus(Haw.) Britton & Rose

Devil's Tongue Barrel Cactus

WFO wfo-0000686307 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Ferocactus latispinus, photographed by José Belem Hernández Díaz
fig. a José Belem Hernández Díaz, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-11-25 / obs. 170248016
Ferocactus latispinus, photographed by José Belem Hernández Díaz
fig. b José Belem Hernández Díaz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179747698
Ferocactus latispinus, photographed by José Belem Hernández Díaz
fig. c José Belem Hernández Díaz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171896655
Ferocactus latispinus, photographed by Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata
fig. d Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161089012
Ferocactus latispinus, photographed by José Belem Hernández Díaz
fig. e José Belem Hernández Díaz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179750762
Ferocactus latispinus, photographed by José Belem Hernández Díaz
fig. f José Belem Hernández Díaz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 137298308
Ferocactus latispinus, photographed by José Belem Hernández Díaz
fig. g José Belem Hernández Díaz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136655978
Ferocactus latispinus, photographed by José Belem Hernández Díaz
fig. h José Belem Hernández Díaz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130506960

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Flowering n = 86 observations

Peak flowering in Oct, from 86 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 67 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.

  • Bisnaga cornigera (DC.) Orcutt
  • Bisnaga latispina (Haw.) Doweld
  • Bisnaga latispina subsp. spiralis (Karw. ex Pfeiff.) Doweld
  • Bisnaga latispinus var. spiralis (Karw. ex Pfeiff.) Doweld
  • Bisnaga recurva subsp. latispina (Haw.) Doweld
  • Cactus cornigerus Moc. & Sessé ex DC.
  • Cactus latispinus Haw.
  • Cactus nobilis L.
  • Cactus recurvus Mill.
  • Cactus recurvus (Lehm.) Kuntze
  • Cereus recurvus Link & Otto ex Steud.
  • Echinocactus corniger DC.
  • Echinocactus corniger f. flavispinus (J.N.Haage ex C.F.Först.) Schelle
  • Echinocactus corniger var. flavispinus J.N.Haage ex C.F.Först.
  • Echinocactus corniger var. latispinus (Haw.) Voss
  • Echinocactus corniger var. latispinus C.F.Först.
  • Echinocactus corniger var. rubrispinosus DC.
  • Echinocactus cornigerus DC.
  • Echinocactus curvicornis Miq.
  • Echinocactus latispinus (Haw.) Hemsl.
  • Echinocactus latispinus var. flavispinus (J.N.Haage) F.A.C.Weber
  • Echinocactus nobilis (L.) Druce
  • Echinocactus nobilis Haw.
  • Echinocactus recurvus (Mill.) Link & Otto

and 43 more.

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.

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