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Pilosocereus catingicola

Pilosocereus catingicola
Photo: Emerson Antônio Rocha Melo de Lucena, CC BY-SA 3.0

Pilosocereus catingicola is a columnar cactus, a tree-like species native to the dry caatinga of northeastern Brazil. It needs full sun, very little water, and well-drained soil.

Family
Cactaceae (Cactus family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and only when the soil is fully dry, reducing further in winter.
Soil
Fast-draining sandy cactus or succulent mix.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Easy
Native range
NE. Brazil
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Pilosocereus catingicola is a flowering plant in the family Cactaceae that is endemic in northeastern Brazilian states of Rio Grande do Norte, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Paraíba, Bahia.

The plant is bat-pollinated, by Goldman's nectar bat.

Other Pilosocereus plants

Pilosocereus albisummus · Pilosocereus alensis · Pilosocereus armatus · Pilosocereus arrabidae · Pilosocereus aureispinus · Pilosocereus aurisetus · Pilosocereus azulensis · Pilosocereus brasiliensis · Pilosocereus brevispinus · Pilosocereus brooksianus · Pilosocereus catalani · Pilosocereus catimbauensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pilosocereus catingicola 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.

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