Pachycereus pringlei
The Mexican giant cardón, the tallest cactus known, from the Sonoran Desert of Baja California and coastal Sonora. In cultivation it is slow, needs full sun, heat and very sharp drainage, and should be kept dry and frost-free in winter.
Where it grows wild
Open Sonoran Desert plains, alluvial fans, rocky hills and coastal flats, sometimes rooting straight into bare rock with help from root-associated bacteria.
Recorded from sea level to about 1,040 m, median 161 m; mostly a lowland and coastal species.
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