Bush Pencil Cholla is an interesting cactus native
to Arizona, in the American continent. It has small flowers; flowers
may be chartreuse, pale reddish-orange, or mixtures with bronze. Inner
tepals are green- or orange-bronze, spoon-shaped, 1.7-2.0 cm,
apiculate; filaments dark green-bronze; anthers yellow; style whitish
basally to light orange apically; stigma lobes very pale green. Stems
are light green in color and very thin, usually no wider than 1.5 cm.
Spines are yellow-brown in color, up to 1.5 inches long and point
downwards; there are between 0 and 3 per areole. The lack of spines on
some areoles is an identifying feature. Mature plants reach heights of
4 feet, with hundreds of branches 2-5 inches long, sprouting from an
upright trunk.
Identification credit: Ram Krishan
Photographed in Srinagar, Uttarakhand.
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