Mammillaria candida

Translingual

Etymology

Mammillaria f +‎ Latin candida f (“shining white”).

Proper noun

Mammillaria candida f

  1. A taxonomic species within the family Cactaceae – snowball cactus, a globe cactus whose thorns cover so much of its surface that its surface is obscured, thus seeming to be white.

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