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Common name: Pincushion Cactus, Mammillaria, Nipple Cactus, Fishhook Cactus
Scientific name: Mammillaria microcarpa
Description: Very small barrel-like cactus with showy pink flowers, short white spines, and long curved reddish-brown spines.
Uses: Among the Papago and Pima, used as a water supplement (when opened and chewed). The red cactus fruit may be rubbed on arrowshafts as coloring/dye.
- Author
- Kimberley A. Ryan, Northern Arizona University Anthropology Laboratories
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- 280.jpg
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