What is this cactus?

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It’s a type of Euphorbia which is not a cactus. Euphorbia has several plants in the genus that shows Convergent evolution with some cacti hence why they look so similar.

I’m pretty bad with Euphorbia ID but my guess would be Euphorbia makallensis.
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