CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Beware the jumping cholla, Cylindropuntia fulgida. This shrubby, branching cactus will - if provoked by touching - anchor its splayed spines in the flesh of the offender. The ...

Cholla’s reputation as a “jumping” cactus derives from its habit of springing from a parent plant onto the skin or clothing of a hapless passerby, Doug Kreutz explains for The Arizona Daily ...