Pereskia sacharosa
A leafy, spiny shrub or small tree cactus from the dry Chaco and Chiquitano forests of Bolivia, Paraguay, northern Argentina and western Brazil, with pink rose-like flowers. It grows like a woody shrub: hot, bright and well watered in summer, then dropping its leaves through a dry, cooler winter.
Where it grows wild
Grows in seasonally dry deciduous and thorn forest, forest edges and scrub, often under or among taller trees where it gets bright, partly broken light.
Recorded from about 80 to 1,680 m, with a median of 350 m; most plants are in the lowland Chaco and the Andean foothills.
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