🌵 Author(s) | Joseph Nelson RoseNathaniel Lord Britton |
🌵 Type | Ferocactus wislizeni |
Latin fĕrus ‘wild, fierce’ + Cactus. For “the very spiny character of the plants”. Compare Sclerocactus, a rhyming name with more or less the same meaning published in the same work.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Jul 14). Ferocactus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/Ferocactus