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Cylindropuntia bigelovii
Also called Teddy-bear Cholla
Teddybear cholla is a spiny, shrubby cactus from the Sonoran and Colorado deserts of the southwestern US and northwestern Mexico, with a fuzzy silver look from its dense spines. It needs full sun, very sharp drainage, and little water.
Cylindropuntia bigelovii, the teddy-bear cholla, is a cholla cactus species native to Northwestern Mexico, and to the United States in California, Arizona, and Nevada.
Cylindropuntia bigelovii grows in desert regions at elevations to about 3,000 ft (900 m) in the "Low Desert" or Colorado Desert of Southern California, and in other Sonoran Desert regions of the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cylindropuntia bigelovii 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.
