
Opuntia Country 3
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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
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Opuntia camanchica, Albuquerque, NM, late winter
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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 |
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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
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Opuntia camanchica
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Opuntia camanchica |

Opuntia camanchica
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Opuntia camanchica (right), plant at left may be O. camanchica, late winter |

Opuntia camanchica
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Opuntia camanchica
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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
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Opuntia camanchica, Cibola National Forest
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Opuntia camanchica
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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
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Opuntia camanchica |

Opuntia camanchica (right), possibly O. dulcis on left, late winter, NM |

Opuntia camanchica
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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)
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Opuntia camanchica, west of Carrizozo, NM, May, 2006 |

Close-up of plant at immediate left
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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 |
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Close-up of plant at immediate left
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Opuntia camanchica, Conchas Lake State Park, NM, May 2006 |

Close-up of plant at left
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Close-up of plant at far left |
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