It has been proposed to place this cactus in the genus Copiapoa.

I have recently started collecting South American species, with particular attention on Copiapoa.

Here, the most common species are those of the genus Copiapoa, which are recognizable by their distinctive shapes.

Copiapoa atacamensis was named by Harry Middleditch in 1980.

Some cacti have taproots; in genera such as Copiapoa, these are considerably larger and of a greater volume than the body.

Back to Photo Gallery Copiapoa cinerea Slow growing plant from central Chile.

Copiapoa fiedleriana (syn.

Copiapoa coquimbana (Coquimbano)

Copiapoa krainziana (Chascón)

Copiapoa mollicula (Bajotierra)

Copiapoa tocopillana (Tocopillano)

This was created in 1860 by the Pallanca family and contains more than 3000 varieties of Succulent plant including a Copiapoa which is three hundred years old.

Copiapoa cinerea is a species of the genus Copiapoa in the family of Cactaceae.

Copiapoa cinerea (Copiapoa de Philippi)

Copiapoa malletiana (Copiapoa de Carrizal)

Here, a much thinner stemmed Copiapoa with sharper ribs and thin, brittle, often snow-white spines is found: Copiapoa krainziana.

Since its discovery in 1854 and description, both by Philippi, in 1860 (as Echinocactus cinereus), many more Copiapoa species have been named that are best regarded as members of a highly variable complex.

The conversion of land to agriculture has affected populations of Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus in Mexico, where dry plains were plowed for maize cultivation, and of Copiapoa and Eulychnia in Chile, where valley slopes were planted with vines.

There are more than 20 cactus species in the area, mainly of the genus Copiapoa which can be also be observed in the cactarium located in the environmental office of CONAF in front of Los Piqueros Beach 4.96 miles from the park entrance.