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Pronunciation: sil-in-dro-PUN-tee-a ber-nar-DEE-na
Common name: Valley cholla
Family: Cactaceae (Cactus)
Habitat: Dry gravelly fans and slopes to 6000', coastal sage scrub, chaparral and pinyon-juniper woodland, west edge of Colorado Desert, and adjacent mountains of southern California, Santa Fe Dam area
Blooming period: May to July
Name derivations: 1) Cylindropuntia 2) bernardina
Formerly Cylindropuntia californica var. parkeri