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Opuntia camanchica Engelm. & J.M. Bigelow

Opuntia camanchica is another plant erroneously lumped into a single species with O. phaecantha. Some writers, by extension, would lump O. camanchica with numerous other legitimate species (See Desert Tropicals, O. phaecantha). Other treatments of the species might limit it to plants with dark spines (See Flora of North America online, O. phaecantha).

Opuntia camanchica, Bernalillo, NM, March 2006, late winter	Close-up of plant at left	Opuntia camanchica, a few miles west of San Ysidro, NM, late winter 2006
Opuntia camanchica, red spines, late winter, near San Ysidro, NM, red spines in winter	Opuntia camanchica, Albuquerque, NM, late winter	Opuntia camanchica, Albuquerque, NM, late winter
Opuntia camanchia, May 2006, drought year, plants shriveled and collapsed like O. phaecantha, Placitas, NM	Opuntia camanchica, Coors Rd., Albuquerque, NM, May 2006, drought year	Opuntia species, Placitas, NM
Opuntia camanchica , Placitas, NM, May 2006, drought year, plants collapsed and not semi-upright as would be expcected.	Opuntia camanchica , Placitas, NM, May 2006	Opuntia camanchica, Placitas, NM, May 2006
Opuntia camanchica, Placitas, NM, May 2006	Opuntia camanchica, Placitas, NM, May 2006	Opuntia camanchica, Placitas, NM, May 2006
	Opuntia camanchica, Albuquerque, NM, river bottom near Atrisco St.	Opuntia camanchica, Albuquerque, NM, river bottom near Atrisco St.
Images below were added after February 1, 2008
Opuntia camanchica, mountains west of Roswell, NM, May 2006	Close-up of plant at left	Opuntia camanchica
Opuntia camanchica	Opuntia camanchica	Opuntia camanchica (right), plant at left may be O. camanchica, late winter
Opuntia camanchica	Opuntia camanchica	Opuntia camanchica
Opuntia camanchica, close-up of image in row above, far right	Opuntia camanchica, March 2006, Cibola National Forest, 10-15 miles northeast of downtown Albuquerque, NM, in late winter snow	Opuntia camanchica (looking like O. phaecantha) with Nolina sp, Cibola National Forest near Albuquerque, NM
Opuntia camanchica, Cibola National Forest	Opuntia camanchica (or O. phaecantha)	Opuntia camanchica, late winter, drought year, Placitas, NM
Opuntia camanchica, branches from three different plants	Close-up of center-top cladode from group at left	Opuntia camanchica
Opuntia camanchica (right), possibly O. dulcis on left, late winter, NM	Opuntia camanchica	Close-up of plant at left, showing long red spines
Opuntia phaecantha, with stout spines, can be confused with O. camanchica (see O. phaecantha page)	Opuntia camanchica, placitas, NM, March 2006	Opuntia camanchica, Placitas, NM
Opuntia camanchica	close-up of plant at left	Opuntia camanchica
Opuntia camanchica, Belen, NM, March 2006 (late winter)	Opuntia camanchica, west of Carrizozo, NM, May, 2006	Close-up of plant at immediate left
Opuntia camanchica, southwest of Artesia, NM, late May, drought year	Close-up of plant at left	Close-up of plant at far left
Opuntia camanchica, southwest of Artesia, NM, late May, drought year	Opuntia camanchica, Conchas Lake State Park, near dam, NM, May 2006	Close-up of plant at immediate left
Opuntia camanchica, Conchas Lake State Park, NM, May 2006	Close-up of plant at left	Close-up of plant at far left