Opuntia whipplei Engelm. & J.M. Bigelow var. spinosior Engelm.
Cylindropuntia spinosior (Engelm.) F.M. Knuth
Cane cholla, walkingstick cactus
Cane cholla is native to southern North America.
Plants: Low, compact, tangled shrubs, 1–6½′ (40–200 cm) high. Stem segments are rippled with oval tubercules, resembling heavy rope. Each segment is 1¾–9 ⨉ ½–1¼″ (5–23 ⨉ 1.3–3.5 cm) around, and green to purple in color. Glochids— clusters of easily detached spines—are yellow to tan to gray a 1/32–1/16″ (1–2 mm) long.
Flowers: A range of colors: magenta, red, purplish, bronze-purple, yellow, or nearly white; they are up to 3″ (7.6 cm) around.
Fruits: Cylindrical, also covered with tubercules, yellow with purple, ¾–1¾″ (2–5 cm) long.
Habitats: Desert, grasslands.
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Opuntia spinosior (Engelm.) Toumey
Opuntia whipplei Engelm. & J.M. Bigelow var. spinosior Engelm.
Opuntia whipplei Engelm. & J.M. Bigelow var. spinosior Engelm.
5/7/2014 · American Southwest (AZ or TX) · By Jacquelyn Boyt 
5/9/2014 · American Southwest (AZ or TX) · By Jacquelyn Boyt 
11/6/2005 
5/24/2009 · Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona 
ID is uncertain 
| Parents | Unknown | Genus is not in the current taxonomy |
| Genus | Cylindropuntia | from the Greek kylindros, “a cylinder,” plus genus Opuntia, this is now the new genus of the so-called ‘true chollas’ |
| Species | spinosior |
Cylindropuntia spinosior description by Thomas H. Kent, not updated.
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