Cylindropuntia bigelovii
Teddy bear cholla
Cacti · Cactaceae
Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa × bigelovii
Red teddy bear cholla
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A cross between two of the Sonoran Desert’s most familiar chollas. It keeps the teddy bear’s thick coat of spines but trades the pale gold for warmer, rusty color, strongest on new growth in full sun.
Ships bare-root in a hard mailing tube. Handle it with tongs or folded newspaper; the spines are barbed and the joints detach easily.
Field notes
Xeromorphs · Phoenix, ArizonaCylindropuntia acanthocarpa × bigelovii
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Native range
- Hybrid of buckhorn cholla (C. acanthocarpa) and teddy bear cholla (C. bigelovii), both Sonoran Desert natives
- Habit
- Branching shrub with dense, teddy-bear spination warmed by the rust tones of its buckhorn parent.
- Light
- Full sun
- Water
- Deep, infrequent soaks in the warm months; dry from late fall through winter.
- Hardiness
- To 20 °F (−7 °C), kept dry
- Propagation
- Rooted cutting