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Opuntia ramosissima Engelm.
Opuntia ramosissima grows in Arizona, Nevada, and California (and into Mexico). The Flora of North America online provides a technical description. This small cylidropuntia often grows as a short, shrubby plant. CalPhotos Website (http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/) provides additional images.
| Description of O. ramosissima: Engelmann, American Journal of Science and Arts, II, vol 14, page 339, 1852 |
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Opuntia ramosissima, west of Laughlin, NV |
Close-up of plant at immediate left |
Opuntia ramosissima, southern Nevada, June 2009 |
 Opuntia ramosissima, Mojave Desert |
 Opuntia ramosissima, Mojave Desert |
 Opuntia ramosissima |
 Opuntia ramosissima |
 Opuntia ramosissima |
 Eastern slope of Mt. Charleston, NV--looking east, Opuntia ramosissima habitat |
 Cultivated Opuntia ramosissima with flowers and developing fruits (photos this row by Craig Howe) |
 Close-up of flower at left |
 Close-up of flower at far left |
 Ferocactus acanthodes, in Mojave Desert |
 Echinocereus Engelmannii in Mojave Desert, growing with Opuntia ramosissima |
 Escobaria, growing with Opuntia ramosissima, O. basilaris, O. echinocarpa, and Echinocereus engelmannii |
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