Cactaceae
Candle cholla
Cylindropuntia kleiniae
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Genus
- Cylindropuntia
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Common names
By language (4)
- Chinese
- 大叶姫珊瑚, 大葉姫珊瑚, 大姬珊瑚
- Dutch
- Opuntia ×
- English
- Candle cholla, Opuntia ×, Tucson pricklypear
- German
- Popular Cholla
Synonyms
- Cylindropuntia arbuscula var. congesta (Griffiths) Backeb.
- Cylindropuntia caerulescens (Griffiths) F.M.Knuth
- Cylindropuntia congesta (Griffiths) F.M.Knuth
- Cylindropuntia recondita (Griffiths) F.M.Knuth
- Cylindropuntia tetracantha (Toumey) F.M.Knuth
- Grusonia congesta (Griffiths) G.D.Rowley
- Grusonia kleiniae (DC.) G.D.Rowley
- Grusonia tetracantha (Toumey) G.D.Rowley
- Opuntia caerulescens Griffiths
- Opuntia californica Engelm.
- Opuntia congesta Griffiths
- Opuntia congesta Griffiths
- Opuntia kleiniae DC.
- Opuntia kleiniae var. gilensis M.A.Fisch.
- Opuntia kleiniae var. laetevirens Salm-Dyck
- Opuntia kleiniae var. tetracantha (Toumey) W.T.Marshall
- Opuntia recondita Griffiths
- Opuntia tetracantha Toumey
- Opuntia wrightii Engelm.
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native
Photos
Photo: Anders Hastings, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Amante Darmanin from Malta, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Amante Darmanin from Malta, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Amante Darmanin from Malta, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Amante Darmanin from Malta, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Anders Hastings, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Ian McFaul, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Ian McFaul, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Jim, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Mauricio Calderón, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Humberto Gonzalez Salas, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.