Beehive cactus, Coryphantha elephantidens (Mammillaria elephantideus). Mammillaire a dents d'elephant. Handcoloured steel engraving by Felicie Fournier after an illustration by Louis Joseph Edouard Maubert from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle (Universal Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1849.

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