Canyon Pricklypear

Canyon Pricklypear

Opuntia canada

Opuntia canada, Canyon Pricklypear

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Griffiths, Annual report Missouri Botanical Garden 20: 90, 1909 Holotype; Topotype; Herbarium (as O. engelmannii); Painting. Original Description What is Opuntia canada? Opuntia cañada is a compact, erect to ascending prickly-pear of far southern Arizona. Plants are typically low-trunked to clumping, with a tidy overall aspect and comparatively few spines per areole relative to allied […]

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Opuntia polyacantha erinaceae

Opuntia polyacantha, Common Pricklypear

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Haworth, Supplementum Plantarum Succulentarum 82, 1819 Original Description What is Opuntia polyacantha? Opuntia polyacantha is a variable prickly pear cactus ranging from Mexico near California, to Texas, to the Rocky Mountain states, the Great Plains, and north into Alberta and Saskatchewan. In 2018, a disjunct population was discovered in the Thousand Islands region of Ontario, Canada. This

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