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2 unusual facts about Cholla


Cholla

Challah, a special braided bread traditional amongst certain Jewish communities

Minjung

Born in the southwestern province of Cholla, Kim Chiha is known for being a critic that played a large role in the Pak regime.


C. ramosissima

Cylindropuntia ramosissima, the diamond cholla or branched pencil cholla, a cactus species native to the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts of the Southwestern United States, California, and Northwestern Mexico, and to Baja California and its Islas San Benito

Desert pocket mouse

These pocket mice live in soils that may be vegetated with creosote bush, palo verde, burroweed, mesquite, cholla and other cacti, and short, sparse grass, as well as in lower edges of alluvial fan with yucca, mesquite, grama, and prickle poppy.

Living Desert Zoo and Gardens State Park

The gardens feature a greenhouse and hundreds of cacti and succulents from around the world, including acacia, agave, small barrel cactus, cholla, ocotillo, prickly pear, saguaro, sotol (Dasylirion wheeleri), and yucca.

Pack rat

Some Neotoma species, such as the white-throated woodrat (N. albigula), use the bases of prickly pear or cholla cactus as the sites for their homes, using the cactus' spines for protection from predators.

Quercus pungens

Other plants associated with it include the Mohr shin oak, Quercus mohriana, oneseed juniper, Juniperus monosperma, cane cholla, Opuntia imbricata, purplefruited pricklypear, Opuntia phaeacantha, Mexican buckeye, Ungnadia speciosa, Texas persimmon, Diospyros texana, hairy tridens, Erioneuron pilosum and plateau oak, Quercus fusiformis.

Tonto National Monument

Other common plants include: cholla, prickly pear, hedgehog, and barrel cactus (flowering from April to June); yucca, sotol, and agave; creosote bush and ocotillo; palo verde and mesquite trees; an amazing variety of colorful wild flowers in good years (February to March); and a lush riparian area which supports large Arizona Walnut, Arizona Sycamore, and hackberry trees.

Whipple Mountains Wilderness

The dominant vegetation-type is commonly referred to creosote bush scrub, with palo verde, desert Ironwood, smoketree, and numerous species of cacti including cholla, saguaro, foxtail, and prickly pear.

White-toothed woodrat

Almost invariably, cacti, especially cholla and prickly pear (Opuntia), are present.


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