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Cylindropuntia bernardina
Also called Cane Cholla
California cholla (Cylindropuntia bernardina) is an erect, shrubby cactus up to about 3 m tall, native to southern California and northwestern Baja California. Give it full sun, sharp drainage and very little water.
Cylindropuntia bernardina is a species of cholla cactus commonly known as the cane cholla or valley cholla, native to California and northwestern Baja California. It is an erect cholla that grows up to 2–3 meters tall, and occurs primarily in the foothills of the Transverse and Peninsular Ranges, parts of the Sonoran Desert, and in the Coast Ranges with a few populations around the Cuyama River. It was formerly placed as the variety parkeri of Cylindropuntia californica until it was renamed to C. bernardina. It is more closely related to Cylindropuntia ganderi than to C. californica.
This species is distributed across southern California in the United States and northwestern Baja California in Mexico. It occurs from the Cuyama River, south through the Transverse Ranges and the Peninsular Ranges, reaching its southern extent in the Sierra de San Pedro Martir. Plants of this species are typically found in the chaparral, plains, hills, oak scrub and pinyon-juniper woodlands of the aforementioned mountain ranges and their intervening valleys.
Peach Springs Cholla · Buck-horn cholla · Teddybear cholla · California cholla · Cylindropuntia calmalliana · Wiggins' cholla · Jumping cholla · Gander's buckhorn cholla · Walking Stick Cactus · Tree cholla · Christmas cactus · Long Spine Cholla
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cylindropuntia bernardina 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.
