Cipocereus bradei
A branching, strikingly blue columnar cactus endemic to the Serra do Cabral and western Espinhaço in Minas Gerais, Brazil, reaching about 3.5 m. It grows in rocky mountain habitats with a hot, wet summer and a long dry winter, and does not want cold.
Where it grows wild
Rocky hill and mountain slopes, growing with Arthrocereus, Pilosocereus and Discocactus; as with other Cipocereus this is probably open campo rupestre on quartzite or sandstone, though the habitat is not well described.
500 to 1,200 m in the literature; records span 475 to 1,238 m with a median of 950 m.
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