The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Cylindropuntia whipplei
Whipple cholla is a native North American cholla cactus that forms a small, spiny, branching shrub in dry, open desert and shrubland. It needs full sun, sharp drainage and very little water.
Cylindropuntia whipplei (formerly known as Opuntia whipplei, common name Whipple cholla) is a member of the cactus family, Cactaceae.
Buck-horn cholla · Teddybear cholla · Jumping cholla · Tree cholla · Christmas cactus · Douglas Pest · Chollas
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cylindropuntia whipplei 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.
