Stetsonia coryne
The toothpick cactus, a large branching tree cactus of the dry Chaco of Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia, with long pale spines on blue-green stems. It wants full sun, hot summers with rain and a cool, dry winter.
Where it grows wild
Grows in open dry Chaco woodland and thorn scrub on flat, often saline or alluvial soils, where it stands above the shrub layer in full sun.
Lowland to foothills, recorded from 83 to 1,156 m with a median of 250 m.
🔒 Growing it like that
The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:
Grow Stetsonia coryne? Add it to a free garden and its full profile opens. Pro opens all 38,374 profiles in the library, plants and fungi.
Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its Public domain licence, unmodified.