{"id":5709,"date":"2012-03-10T11:24:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T16:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opuntiads.com?page_id=5709"},"modified":"2020-02-17T09:02:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T14:02:58","slug":"cylindropuntia-prolifera","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.opuntiads.com\/cyl\/cylindropuntia-prolifera\/","title":{"rendered":"Cylindropuntia prolifera"},"content":{"rendered":"

Engelmann. 1852. American Journal of Science, and Arts, ser. 2, 14 (42): 338.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Original species description<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

Flora of North America treatment<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

What is Cylindropuntia prolifera?<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

Cylindropuntia prolifera<\/em> is a colla that occurs along the coast of southern California and northern Baja California, Mexico. It is a tall shrub to tree-like species growing to 2.5 m tall.<\/p>\n

Details<\/h4>\n

G. prolifera<\/em> terminal stems are very easily detached and range from 4 to 15 cm long by 3.5 to 5 cm wide. Areoles have 6 to 12 red-brown to brown spines with pale yellow-brown sheaths. The flowers are rose to magenta to red with filaments and styles that are yellow-green at the base and pink to magenta at the tips. The stigmas are white to yellow. An interesting feature of G. prolifera<\/em>‘s floral morphology is that it occasionally produces stigmoid anthers — anthers that appear like stigmas. The fruits are green, fleshy, and generally seedless. The specific epithet prolifera<\/em> refers to the proliferating or chaining of the sterile fruits. Cylindropuntia prolifera<\/em> is mainly triploid (2n = 33), however, diploid individuals have been found. Like its fellow triploids G. fulgida<\/em> and G. bigelovii<\/em>, G. prolifera<\/em> mainly reproduces clonally. RAPD evidence indicates<\/a> G. prolifera<\/em> originated as a hybrid between two species of northern Baja California: G. alcahes<\/em> and G. cholla<\/em>.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Engelmann. 1852. American Journal of Science, and Arts, ser. 2, 14 (42): 338. Herbarium specimen; Herbarium specimen; Herbarium specimen; Herbarium specimen; Herbarium specimen; Herbarium specimen; Herbarium specimen; Herbarium specimen; Herbarium specimen Original species description Flora of North America treatment What is Cylindropuntia prolifera? Cylindropuntia prolifera is a colla that occurs along the coast of southern … Continue reading “Cylindropuntia prolifera”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5709","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opuntiads.com\/cyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5709","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=5709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.opuntiads.com\/cyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opuntiads.com\/cyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}