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Cereus forbesii is a branching, columnar cactus from dry hills and woodland in Bolivia and northern Argentina, forming clumps that can reach 2 to 3 m tall. It is grown for its striking blue-green ribbed columns and is easy to keep if it gets strong sun and very sharp drainage.
Cereus forbesii is a species of columnar cactus whose native range is Bolivia to N. Central Argentina.
Common hybrids include C. forbesii 'Ming Thing' (a monstrose form) and 'Spiralis', with its vertically spiraling growth habit.
It is endemic to the Argentine provinces of Catamarca, Chaco, Córdoba, Formosa, Jujuy, La Rioja, Salta, Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero and Tucumán, and north of the city of San Luís. In Bolivia, it is found in the departments of Chuquisaca, Santa Cruz and Tarija. It grows atop arid, windswept hills, within sparse forests, wooded plains, and also on the edges of salt flats, often an elevation of 500–2,000 m (1,600–6,600 ft). Like similarly related cacti, C. forbesii has adapted to extreme temperature fluctuations, including full-sun conditions during the daytime with seasonal near-freezing temperatures at night (especially in winter). Plants growing over 2,000 m above sea level may even contend with wintertime snowfall.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cereus forbesii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
