Cylindropuntia bigelovii

Cylindropuntia bigelovii (teddybear cholla) is a series of Cylindropuntia.

Background
Usually with a central, erect trunk, 1 meter high or less, with short lateral branches, the upper ones erect; joints usually 5 to 15 cm. long, very turgid, with closely set areoles and almost impenetrable armament; tubercles slightly elevated, pale green, somewhat 4-sided, about as long as broad, 1 cm. broad or less; spines, as well as their papery sheaths, pale yellow; flowers several, borne at the tips of the branches, 4 cm. long including the ovary; sepals orbicular, about 1 cm. in diameter, tinged with red; petals about 1.5 cm. long, pale magenta to crimson; ovary 2 cm. long, its large areoles bearing brown wool and several acicular spines: fruit usually naked, strongly tuberculate, the upper tubercles larger than the lower. Type locality is Bill Williams River, Arizona.

It is distributed in Southern Nevada, Arizona, California, northern Sonora, and northern Lower California.