Christmas cactus
Cylindropuntia leptocaulis (DC.) F.M.Knuth
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 91 cm
- wide
- —
Cactaceae
Also called Christmas Cactus, Tesajo Cactus
Formerly Cylindropuntia brittonii, Cylindropuntia mortolensis, Grusonia leptocaulis, Opuntia brittonii, and 8 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Succulent subshrub or shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Desert or dry shrublandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Oklahoma to MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Desert Tropicals, one source
- Height
- 91 cmRead from Desert Tropicals, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Desert Tropicals, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, greenRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -5 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from Desert Tropicals, one source
Not known yet: spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (2)
- Chinese
- 一柱香, 姬珊瑚
- Spanish
- Tasajillo
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Desert Tropicals, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Cylindropuntia leptocaulis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.