A five-story-tall cactus in Xiamen may be the tallest in China, and netizens say it has become a spirit

Xiamen: A cactus more than ten meters tall grows upward along the outer wall of a 5-story residential building, reaching the top floor. Among the plants, bamboo poles and ropes used to secure the cactus can be seen. n

I usually do not take care of it, and it grew this tall on its own. If you had come a few days earlier, you could still have seen it bloom, and it was quite beautiful." The landlady, an elderly woman, usually likes to grow flowers and plants. Her yard is filled with potted plants. She said that when their family first built the house, the workers brought this cactus from somewhere to plant it. She could not bear to destroy it and let it grow freely. Unexpectedly, it grew this tall. n