Taxon: Cylindropuntia bigelovii (Engelm.) Knuth
Family: Cactaceae

Collector: J. Wellwerts      

Date: 18 March 1999

Locality: USA, Arizona, Yavapai County, Maricopa County: Grown in cultivation at Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, N 33 deg 27' 33'', W 111 deg 56' 35'', 1200 ft., 366 m: accession number 1991 0280 0101; originally received as a plant collected by Cesar Mazier, 13 March 1991, from Arizona, Yavapai County, Lake Pleasant area, Section 30, T7N R1E; habitat Upper Sonoran Desert; Collector's note: Associated plants: Ambrosia deltoidea, Larrea tridentata, Cercidium microphyllum, Opuntia bigelovii, Ferocactus cylindraceus, Lycium sp., Canotia holacantha, Fouquieria splendens, Eriogonum sp., Viguiera deltoidea, Mammillaria grahamii, Echinocereus englemannii, Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa, Cylindropuntia fulgida, Cylindropuntia leptocaulis, Carnegiea gigantea, Ephedra sp., Sphaeralcea sp. Simmondsia chinensis.

Description: Plant height 45 cm, width 53 cm; stems green with new growth on some stems.

Notes: Cultivated

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