Coryphantha elephantidens is a large, depressed-globular cactus, simple or occasionally clumping and group-forming. This plant has pink flowers The epithet ‘elephantidens’ comes from Latin and means ‘elephant tooth’ and describes the fang-like spines of this species.This plant is endemic to mexico.This plant is simple, flattened globular to subglobose, up to 14(-19) cm in diameter and 14 cm high, glossy dark green, subglaucous.Tubercles are very large, , somewhat flattened, 20-30 (60) mm wide, obtuse, rounded on top, pentaedrical at the base, 4 to 5 cm wide, always broader than rounded, without glands, the tubercles axil is densely woolly.Areoles are elliptic, when young woolly, in age naked. The tubercles are capped with a 5-8 of stout reflexed radial spines, spreading, somewhat unequal, 18-26 mm long, strong, subulate, curved, never porrect, but adpressed to the body, when young brownish with yellowish bases, black at apex. Central spines are absent.This plant blooms from late summer to autumn.Propagation is from seeds or from cuttings
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