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Cylindropuntia leptocaulis (Christmas cactus; tesajo cactus (christmastree cacti))

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Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

Cylindropuntia leptocaulis, the desert Christmas cactus, desert Christmas cholla, or tasajillo, is a cactus.
View Wikipedia Record: Cylindropuntia leptocaulis

Infraspecies

Cylindropuntia leptocaulis var. leptocaulis
Cylindropuntia leptocaulis var. pleuriseta

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Carlsbad Caverns National Park II 15448 New Mexico, United States
Fort Bowie National Historic Site III 1004 Arizona, United States
Jornada Biosphere Reserve Ib 30913 New Mexico, United States
White Sands National Monument III 139922 New Mexico, United States

Predators

Dactylopius tomentosus (Devil's rope pear scale)[1]
Rumatha glaucatella[2]
Rumatha polingella[2]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0