Neoraimondia arequipensis
Neoraimondia arequipensis is a large columnar cactus of the Peruvian coastal desert and dry western Andean valleys, notable for its long, felted flowering areoles that lengthen year after year. It needs full sun, a very mineral soil and almost no water outside the warm months.
Where it grows wild
Grows on dry, rocky slopes, gravel fans and valley sides in the coastal desert and the lower western Andes, where rain is almost absent and moisture comes mostly from winter fog.
Recorded from about 60 to 1,320 m (median 444 m); the genus reaches higher in some valleys.
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