Cylindropuntia Natural Hybrid, Red Cholla

This cactus is easy to grow and has handled temperatures below 15 degrees at my home near Skunk Creek in New River, Az and it has remaine...Read Mored hardy and strong all along! No problem with temperatures of 16, 14 and 18 three nights in a row! My plants are almost 6 feet tall and 5 feet wide and beautiful. I have two of the originally discovered cacti plants! I was at the Pinnacle Peak dig site in Scottsdale (as Walter was) with my cactus permits in hand literally looking at these cacti and knowing they were different! Wish I would have hurried to ASU myself!

I just got someone to send me some cuttings of C. x-campii in a trade. It's a pretty neat plant. From what I have learned about it and I ...Read Morecan see when I look at the segments that it's a natural hybrid between C. bigelovii and C. acanthacarpa. It appears on SEINET that it flowers, how reliable is it in flowering? As most people who like cacti know C. bigelovii mostly grows via offsets (or clones) so they don't always reliable bloom. I am curious if these bloom often or sporadically or nor at all?

I discovered Cylindropuntia x campii in the late 1980's in North Scottsdale. I hand delivered the first recorded specimen to Dr. Pinkeva ...Read Moreat ASU. I can provide a lot of additional information about this naturally occuring hybrid. Walter Camp

This is a new Arizona naturally occuring hybrid. There is a write-up in the Cactus and Succulents Journal: Vol 71, No 6 Nov-Dec 1999 abou...Read Moret it.