Cob Cactus
This beautiful thick, cylindrical cactus found here in Big Bend National Park in West Texas is a species with dozens of common names such as: straw-colored hedgehog, pitaya, alicoche, green strawberry hedgehog cactus, etc. It is found natively in the Chihuahuan Desert close to the Rio Grande, specifically in west and south Texas, Dona Ana County in southern New Mexico, as well as in the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila and Sonora. Recent spring rains have caused these plants to swell up with stored rainwater.
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Angiosperms, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Cactaceae, Cactoideae, Caryophyllales, Cereus dubius, Chihuahuan Desert, Core eudicots, Echinocereus, Echinocereus dubius, Echinocereus enneacanthus, Echinocereus merkeri, Echinocereus sarissophorus, Echinocereus uspenskii, Eudicots, Pachycereeae, Plantae, Texas, alicoche, arid, banana cactus, botany, cacti, cactus, cob cactus, cylindrical, desert, dicot, flora, green, green strawberry hedgehog, green strawberry hedgehog cactus, heat, hurt, nature, pain, painful, perennial, pink, pitaya, plant, poke, prickle, prickly, prostrate hedgehog, sharp, shrub, southwest, spike, spiky, spring, straw-colored hedgehog, strawberry cactus, strawberry hedgehog, strawberry hedgehog cactus, succulent, thorn, thorny, west, western, wild, Chiricahua, Chiricahua Desert, Chiricahuan, desert, Big Bend National Park, National Park, NP, BBNP, Chiricahuan Desert
- Contained in galleries
- Pachycereeae
