{"id":27509,"date":"2016-02-23T16:03:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T21:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opuntiads.com\/cyl\/?page_id=27509"},"modified":"2025-01-26T11:12:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T16:12:27","slug":"corynopuntia-emoryi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.opuntiads.com\/cyl\/corynopuntia-emoryi\/","title":{"rendered":"Grusonia emoryi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Engelmann. 1856. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 3: 304.&nbsp;<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opuntiads.com\/records\/corynopuntia-emoryi-herb.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Herbarium specimen<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/opuntiads.com\/records\/corynopuntia-emoryi-herb2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Herbarium specimen<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/records\/grusonia-emoryi-herb3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Herbarium specimen<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/records\/grusonia-emoryi-herb4.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Herbarium specimen<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/records\/grusonia-emoryi-herb5.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Herbarium specimen<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/records\/grusonia-emoryi-herb6.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Herbarium specimen<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/records\/grusonia-emoryi-herb7.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Herbarium specimen<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/records\/grusonia-emoryi-herb8.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Herbarium specimen<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/records\/grusonia-emoryi-herb9.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Herbarium specimen<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/records\/grusonia-emoryi-herb10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Herbarium specimen<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/records\/grusonia-emoryi-desc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Original species description<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/opuntiads.com\/records\/CLUB%20CHOLLAS%20OF%20THE%20BIG%20BEND%203.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Club Chollas of the Big Bend 3.0<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.efloras.org\/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&amp;taxon_id=242415175\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Flora of North America treatment<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>What is <em>Grusonia emoryi?<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><em>Grusonia emoryi<\/em> is a dog cholla of the Big Bend region that form clumps or mats of stems to 10-30 cm high and up to 150 cm across. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Details<\/h4>\n<p><em>G. emoryi<\/em> cladodes are curved-clavate, gradually to abruptly narrowed at base, 7-19 \u00d7 2.5-5 cm, and the tubercles are very prominent (20-50 mm and 1-3.5 times longer than wide) not or little obscured by spines. The areoles are 4-6 mm in diameter with white to gray wool. There are 12-30 spines per areole, mostly in apical areoles to \u00b1 uniformly distributed along stems. The spines are spreading, yellow, tan, or red-brown, tipped yellow to 3-7 cm. The major 3-5 abaxial spines are divergent, yellowish or red-brown, angular-flattened, sharp-edged, whereas the major (1-)3-5 adaxial spines are ascending-divergent, tan or red-brown, angular-flattened to subterete. The most recent treatment is in <a href=\"http:\/\/opuntiads.com\/records\/CLUB%20CHOLLAS%20OF%20THE%20BIG%20BEND%203.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Club Chollas of the Big Bend 3.0<\/a>&nbsp;(see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opuntiads.com\/cyl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/appendixE.pdf\">Appendix E<\/a>).&nbsp;<em>G. emoryi<\/em> has diffuse, hair-like roots and is tetraploid.&nbsp;<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engelmann. 1856. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 3: 304.&nbsp; Herbarium specimen; Herbarium specimen; Herbarium specimen; Herbarium specimen; Herbarium specimen; Herbarium specimen; Herbarium specimen; Herbarium specimen; Herbarium specimen; Herbarium specimen Original species description Club Chollas of the Big Bend 3.0 The Flora of North America treatment What is Grusonia emoryi? Grusonia emoryi &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opuntiads.com\/cyl\/corynopuntia-emoryi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Grusonia emoryi&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27509","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opuntiads.com\/cyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opuntiads.com\/cyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opuntiads.com\/cyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opuntiads.com\/cyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opuntiads.com\/cyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.opuntiads.com\/cyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30548,"href":"https:\/\/www.opuntiads.com\/cyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27509\/revisions\/30548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opuntiads.com\/cyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}