Cochemiea halei

Cochemiea halei forms large clusters up to in size. Individual shoots are cylindrical, long, and in diameter. The warts are short, and the axillae are woolly. It has 6-9 stiff, strong, reddish-brown central spines long that turn gray with age. The 15-22 radial spines are initially reddish-brown and gray, long. The red flowers are vertical with a crooked-hemmed and long with a long flower tube. The fruits are club-shaped, red, and up to long. Seeds are reticulated. File:Cochemiea halei 9.jpg|Flower File:Cochemiea halei 10.jpg|Fruit ==Distribution==

Cochemiea halei is found in Baja California Sur, Mexico, specifically on the islands of Magdalena and Santa Margarita at elevations of 10 to 100 meters. It grows on sand dunes on the beach along with Echinocereus barthelowianus, Opuntia pycnantha, Cochemiea dioica, and Stenocereus eruca. It is also rarely found in a few adjacent mainland localities. File:Cochemiea halei 312872650.jpg|Several plants on Magdalena Island File:Cochemiea halei 4.jpg|Plants growing in habitat San Carlos, Baja California Sur, Mexico File:Cochemiea halei 8.jpg|Habitat growing in San Carlos, Baja California Sur, Mexico ==Taxonomy==

First described as Mammillaria halei in 1889 by American botanist Townshend Stith Brandegee, the specific epithet honors J.P. Hale, a landowner in Baja California who supported Brandegee's expedition. Frederick Arthur Walton reclassified the species to the genus Cochemiea in 1899. == References ==