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Melocactus caroli-linnaei is a columnar, spiny cactus from Jamaica, growing up to about 1 m tall, with a woolly, bristly cephalium at the top from which the red flowers form. Grow it in a bright, sunny, well-drained setting and water sparingly.
Melocactus caroli-linnaei is a cactus (a member of the family Cactaceae) found in Jamaica. When mature it is columnar, up to 1 m (3.3 ft) high. Like all species of Melocactus, it forms a "cephalium" when mature – a dense mass of areoles covered with wool and spines at the tip of the stem. Flowers are produced only from the cephalium.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Melocactus caroli-linnaei 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.
