Chain-Fruit Cholla Traditional Cache
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Cholla is a term applied to various shrubby cacti with segmented branches. The Jumping Cholla is a very spiny cactus, usually a shrub, but sometimes more like a tree, with a number of irregular, jointed branches bearing sharp-barbed spines that are painful and difficult to remove. This is the largest of the cholla, attaining a height of up to 15 feet and growing as much as 6 feet wide. It is usually much smaller.
Because these 3- to 8-inch joints separate easily, they are accused of "jumping" to attack passersby. Also called the "chain fruit" and the "jumping cholla," it grows to a height of 6 to 10 feet and a diameter of up to 8 feet.
The somewhat drooping branches bear light-green, 1/2- to 1-inch leaves only when young. Clusters of green, spineless, pear-shaped fruit about an inch in length hang in chains from the branches. Some remain attached for several years, bearing new flowers annually, sometimes with no seeds. New
fruits are added to those from previous seasons, creating a chain of spineless fruit up to 2 feet long -- hence the name "chain fruit."
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