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What is a Diamond Cholla?
Cylindropuntia ramosissima is a species of the Cylindropuntia genus. (1)
Cylindropuntia ramosissima is also known as diamond cholla, branched pencil cholla, pencil cholla. (1, 2)
What does a diamond cholla look like?
picture here (1)
Where is a diamond cholla located?
native to the Mojave Desert and Sonoran Desert (1)
California (map) (1,2)
northwester Mexico, Baja California, Islas San Benito. (1)
What does the flower look like?
small, orange, pink or brownish in color (1)
picture here (red) , picture heree (brownish)
What does the fruit look like?
small, dry, spiny body up to 2 centimeters long. (1)
Resources
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylindropuntia_ramosissima
2. https://www.calscape.org/Cylindropuntia-ramosissima-()
