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Cylindropuntia echinocarpa
Also called Golden Cholla, Silver cholla, Wiggins's Cholla, Ground Cholla
Wiggins' cholla is a spiny, shrub-to-tree-like desert cactus with cylindrical green segments and golden-spined stems. It is grown for its strong architecture and needs full sun, very sharp drainage and minimal water.
Cylindropuntia echinocarpa is a species of cactus known by the common names silver cholla, golden cholla, and Wiggins' cholla. It was formerly named Opuntia echinocarpa.
Cylindropuntia echinocarpa is native to the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico in the states of Baja California and Sonora, where it can be found the Sonoran Desert, the Mojave Desert, and Colorado Desert in California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona in semi-desert, grassland and forestland at altitudes of 50 to 1700 meters.
Peach Springs Cholla · Buck-horn cholla · California Cholla · Teddybear cholla · California cholla · Cylindropuntia calmalliana · Jumping cholla · Gander's buckhorn cholla · Walking Stick Cactus · Tree cholla · Christmas cactus · Long Spine Cholla
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cylindropuntia echinocarpa 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.
