Common names: Cottontop cactus, devil’s pin-cushion
Food
Flowers – when buds, were eaten by the Cahuilla (Bean and Saubel 1972:69).
Seeds – within the spines, white wooly capsules were pried out with sticks, broken open, and the seeds within gathered to eat and store for winter by the Panamint (Coville 1982:353).
Gathering Season – May and June (Bean and Saubel 1972:69).
Echinocactus polycephalus Engelm. & Bigelow in GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-05-02.Homalocephala polycephala (J.M.Bigelow & Engelm.) Vargas & Bárcenas observed in United States of America by Matt Berger (licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Homalocephala polycephala (J.M.Bigelow & Engelm.) Vargas & Bárcenas observed in United States of America by Henrik Kibak (licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Homalocephala polycephala (J.M.Bigelow & Engelm.) Vargas & Bárcenas observed in United States of America by Henrik Kibak (licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Homalocephala polycephala (J.M.Bigelow & Engelm.) Vargas & Bárcenas observed in United States of America by CK Kelly (licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Homalocephala polycephala (J.M.Bigelow & Engelm.) Vargas & Bárcenas observed in United States of America by Alexander Wentworth (licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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