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Cylindropuntia leptocaulis; Christmas Cholla; (shown with Leucophyllum frutescens)   

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Cylindropuntia leptocaulis
Cylindropuntia leptocaulis
Christmas Cholla
(shown with Leucophyllum frutescens)
Photographer: E. Wynn Anderson

ID: 0000 0000 1015 0749 (2015-10-06)

Copyright © 2015 Wynn Anderson

 
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  • date of photo  Sep 20, 2015
  • latitude 27.09323   longitude 99.42656     View on Google Maps.
  • location   US highway 83, southside rest area & river overlook, 3.4 miles northwest of San Ygnacio (post office), 1.7 miles southeast of Los Corralitos Ranch road (Zapata County, Texas, US)
  • family Cactaceae
  • plant community   Rio Grande Plains scrub at 385'
  • notes   on coarse gravelly calcareous silts of alluvial bluff above Rio Grande River with Schaefferia cuneifolia, Heliotropium confertifolium, Karwinskia humboldtiana, Leucophyllum frutescens,Aloysia macrostachya, Vachellia rigidula, Forestieria angustifolia, Ephedra antisyphilitica, Yucca constricta, Jatropha dioica, Sida tragiaefolia, Lippia graveolens, Guaiacum angustifolium, Calliandra conferta, Krameria ramosissima.
  • keywords: Rio Grande Plains
  • contributor's ID #  TXrgp 1145
  • photo category: Plant - shrub

  • MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PLANT
  • common names   Christmas Cholla, Tasajillo (photographer)
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