The stem segments of this plant are loosely attached so when a person or animal lightly brushes the plant the segment detaches and attaches to whatever brushed the plant. The spines are barbed much like a fishhook so the segments are difficult to remove without tearing the flesh. It seems that the cholla 'jumped' when in actuality it did not.
Yes, the jumping cholla is a plant and a producer.
A jumping cholla is a plant and produces its own food by photosynthesis.
Except for a few parasitic insects, few animals will even attempt to devour a jumping cholla.
the life span of a jumping cholla is 500 years
Only a few insects such as scale insects and cochineal bugs will attack a jumping cholla.
Baja California ( Upper Mexico)
cus they can mate
Diamond Cholla and Devil Cholla are cacti that grow in Arizona.
During the 1940s and 1950s, they made furniture from the cholla (aka jumping cactus) plant. That included those lamps that had the cactus skeleton as the base. Tequila is made from agave cacti.
blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh whoever wrote the line above this is a moron. the real answer is Chain fruit cholla is a synonym of jumping cholla. Its several names: Jumping Cholla, Hanging Chain Cholla, Chain Fruit Cholla, Cholla Brincadora, Velas de Coyote Cylindropuntia fulgida The plant adapted to life in desert: By its minor growth rate ( saves energy ) By its structure; it is composed of long, barbed cylinders that produce shorter barbed cylinders and finally circular barbed appendages called fruit, all these elements are optimized to store water. These segments separate easily so that animals, and even a strongwind can disperse them, they stick to the ground far away from mother plant, take root and grow to a new cactus. It has no leaves, only spikes, that prevents water loss by transpiration. The thick covering of spines shades the plant from the desert heat and also prevent animals from eating the plant. Green stems make food ( photosynthesize ), but lose less water than leaves because of sunken pores able to close in the heat of day. By Josh.K 2010
About the only animal that will attack a cholla cactus are scale insects that suck the fluids from the plant and can eventually kill it.
Roses, prickly pear cacti, Jumping cactus (cholla)