Opuntias found primarily along the ocean coasts. These are mostly Florida or Gulf Coast species.
Britton & Small, Journal of the New York Botanical Garden 20: 31, 1919 Herbarium; Herbarium; Black and White Photograph Original Description What is Opuntia keyensis? Opuntia keyensis is a native Florida pricklypear cactus found in the Keys and Cape Sable. Details O. keyensis is a large, erect, multi-branched cactus that forms a shrub or small […]
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Small, Journal of the New York Botanical Garden 20: 35, 1919 Herbarium Original Description What is Opuntia zebrina? Opuntia zebrina is a medium-sized pricklypear cactus of the Florida Keys. It is named “zebrina” because it has spines that are banded yellow (tan) and dark brown. Details O. zebrina grows to 1 m tall or less. Cladodes are oval or
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Gibbes, Proceedings of the Elliott Society of Natural History of Charleston, South Carolina 1: 273, 1859 Neotype (O. macrarthra); Isoneotype (O. macrarthra); Herbarium (possible); Herbarium; (possible); Painting; Painting (Britton and Rose, The Cactaceae, v1 1919, Plate XV and Plate XXII) Original Description What is Opuntia macrarthra? Opuntia macrarthra is a small to medium-sized pricklypear cactus found on the coastal
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Gibbes, Proceedings of the Elliott Society of Natural History 1: 272, 1859 O. bentonii is similar in some ways to O. tunoidea Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium Original Description What is Opuntia tunoidea? Opuntia tunoidea is a pricklypear cactus that occurs along the coast of South Carolina and on adjacent islands. It has been confused over the
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(Haworth) Haworth, Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarum 191, 1812 Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium O. stricta has similarities with O. dillenii, another beach pricklypear O. stricta is different from O. anahuacensis, but they are both beach pricklypears. Original Citation What is Opuntia stricta? Opuntia stricta is a coastal pricklypear cactus that occurs
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(Haworth) Haworth, Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarum 195, 1812 Neotype; Neotype; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium (O. frustulenta); Painting Original Description What is Opuntia pusilla? Opuntia pusilla is a small pricklypear cactus of the Atlantic Coastal Plants from North Carolina, and across parts of northern Florida to
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Small, Manual of the Southeastern Flora 906, 1933 Herbarium Original Description What is Opuntia nitens? Opuntia nitens is a small (1 m tall but often shorter), semi-erect pricklypear cactus that grows in Florida that is related to O. austrina. See Majure et al., 2017. Details Cladodes are 6-15 cm long and dull-green or yellow-green. Spines
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Small, Manual of the Southeastern Flora 1933, 910 Original Description What is Opuntia turbinata? Opuntia turbinata is a pricklypear cactus that grows in colonies in dunes along the coasts of Georgia and Florida. Details O. turbinata is an erect, much-branched plant less than 1 m tall. The cladodes are obovate, oval, or nearly circular, 10-15
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(Ker Gawl.) Haworth Supplementum Plantarum Succulentarum. 79, 1819 Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium; Herbarium (O. dillenii tehuantepecana); Herbarium; Herbarium; Painting (Britton and Rose, v1 1919, plate XXVIII, No. 2); Print (Botanical Register 1817, 3: plate 255) O. dillenii has similarities with O. stricta, but the two are decidedly different. See O. anahuacensis, another beach pricklypear
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Griffiths, Annual Report of the Missouri Botanical Garden 22: 25, 1911 Holotype; Isotype; Isotype; Isotype; Isotype; Isotype; Herbarium; Drawing (seed) O. bentonii is different from O. anahuacensis, but they are both beach pricklypears. O. bentonii is different from O. stricta, but they are both beach pricklypears. Original Citation What is Opuntia bentonii? Opuntia bentonii is a
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