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Echinocereus bonkerae
Also called Bonker's Hedgehog Cactus
Echinocereus bonkerae is a small, clustering hedgehog cactus from the dry mountains of southeast Arizona and Sonora, Mexico, grown for its large magenta flowers. It needs full sun, sharp drainage and very little water.
Echinocereus bonkerae, also known as pinkflower hedgehog cactus, Bonker hedgehog, or short spined strawberry cactus, is a species of hedgehog cactus.
This species is commonly found in dry grasslands and in chaparral shrublands in the United States in the Pinal and Santa Catalina Mountains of Arizona, and in the neighboring Mexican state of Sonora growing at elevations of 700 - 2000 meters. Plants grow in sandy-loamy soil and rocky slopes in pinyon-juniper woodlands.
Echinocereus acanthosetus · Echinocereus acifer · Echinocereus adustus · Apache hedgehog cactus · Arizona Hedgehog Cactus · Baker Kingcup Cactus · Echinocereus barthelowanus · Berlandier's hedgehog cactus · Brandegee's Hedgehog Cactus · Sonoran Rainbow Hedgehog · Echinocereus canus · Chisos Mountain hedgehog cactus
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Echinocereus bonkerae 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.
