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Cylindropuntia fulgida
Also called Rosea Cactus, Sonoran Jumping Cholla, Boxing Glove Cactus, Boxing Glove Cholla, Brinkadora, Chain Fruit Cholla, Club Cactus
Jumping cholla is a tree-like cactus with a single trunk, drooping chains of spiny fruit, and white-to-pink flowers in midsummer. It needs full sun, sharp drainage, and very little water.
Cylindropuntia fulgida, known as the jumping cholla or hanging chain cholla, is a cholla (Cylindropuntia) cactus native to Sinaloa and Sonora in Mexico, to as far as Arizona on the north in the Southwestern United States.
In the Southwestern United States, the range extends into the Colorado Desert of California, and in Arizona. There it occurs south and southwest of the Arizona transition zone of the Mogollon Rim; in the northwest-central Sonoran Desert of Arizona, it is in a few selected locales. It also reaches into the northeast section of the Mojave Desert in southern Nevada and Utah, and in the very southern section of the Great Basin Desert of southern Utah. It also occurs just south of the east-west section of the Bill Williams River, east of the Colorado River in the Yuma Desert, and in parts of the Eastern Plains of Colorado.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cylindropuntia fulgida 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.
