Mexican Giant Cactus
पैकिसेरियस प्रिंगलेइபாக்கிசீரியசு பிரிங்கிலீ
Pachycereus pringlei (S.Watson) Britton & Rose
- light
- —
- water
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- tall
- —
- wide
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Cactaceae
Also called Cardón Cactus, Mexican Giant Cardon, Elephant Cactus
Formerly Cereus calvus, Cereus pringlei, Cereus titan, Pachycereus calvus, and 2 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Succulent treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Desert or dry shrublandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- NW. Mexico (to Durango)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, height, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (10)
- Spanish
- Cardón, Cardón Blanco
- Chinese (China)
- 武伦柱
- Japanese
- ブリンチュウ, 武倫柱
- root
- Xaasj
- Russian
- Пахицереус Прингла
- Finnish
- jättipilarikaktus
- Slovak
- pachycereus Pringleov
- Chinese
- 武倫柱, 武伦柱
- Hindi
- पैकिसेरियस प्रिंगलेइ
- Tamil
- பாக்கிசீரியசு பிரிங்கிலீ
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Pachycereus pringlei (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.