A bizarre-looking cactus if ever there was one. The silver or wooly torch, is a columnar cactus that grows as tall as 10 feet and wears a white coat of slender spines. Many cacti of this sort produce showy blossoms with soft petals. But the silver torch does things its own way. This plant’s blossom is a carrot-shaped, red protuberance that is covered with hair and scales and grows horizontally at a nearly 90-degree angle to the column. The silver torch is native to altitudes above 5,500 feet in South America, but you needn’t climb a mountain to see it. Sourced from Arizona shipped from Iowa.