Nylon Hedgehog Cactus
The nylon hedgehog cactus (Echinocereus viridiflorus var. cylindricus) is native subspecies of the green-flowering hedgehog cactus, and is found in a narrow band stretching from the Big Bend of Texas and Mexico to southern New Mexico, and is mainly found in the Franklin Mountains near El Paso, Texas. It has distinct creamy orange flowers and shows extreme variability in spine color: white, yellow, brown, reddish, black. Some plants have only short radials while other have a variable number of centrals. This one was photographed in the Big Bend National Park near the Rio Grande.
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Angiosperms, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Cactaceae, Cactoideae, Caryophyllales, Cereus viridiflorus var. cylindricus, Cereus viridiflorus var. tubulosus, Chihuahuan Desert, Core eudicots, E. viridiflorus, Echinocereus, Echinocereus chloranthus subs. cylindricus, Echinocereus chloranthus var. cylindricus, Echinocereus strausianus, Echinocereus viridiflorus, Echinocereus viridiflorus sub. cylindricus, Echinocereus viridiflorus subs. cylindricus, Echinocereus viridiflorus var. cylindricus, Echinocereus viridiflorus var. tubulosus, Eudicots, Pachycereeae, Plantae, Texas, arid, botany, brown, cacti, cactus, desert, dicot, flora, green, green pitaya, green-flowered hedgehog, green-flowered pitaya, heat, hedgehog, hedgehog cactus, hurt, nature, nylon hedgehog cactus, orange, pain, painful, perennial, pitaya, plant, poke, prickle, prickly, sharp, shrub, small-flowered hedgehog cactus, southwest, spike, spiky, spring, succulent, thorn, thorny, west, western, wild, Chiricahua, Chiricahua Desert, Chiricahuan, desert, Big Bend National Park, National Park, NP, BBNP, Chiricahuan Desert
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