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Opuntia phaeacantha (varieties are not currently recognized), known also as Tulip pricklypear and Brown-spined pricklypear. Few plants of this species at this location. Herbivory observed on some pricklypear plants. Some other nearby plants showing evidence of hybridization, probably with O. nicholii. The lower portion of the cladodes (pads) typically are spineless. The areoles are also spaced apart quite widely compared to dry-fruited species. In age, the glochids become quite robust and the pads tend to become somewhat more spineless and spines more white-gray. Spines clusters at the upper ends of the pad typically have more than one central spine, often three or four. The spines on the sides of the cladodes tend to be deflexed. Flowers usually profusely alone the upper edge of prior year growth and some of those can emerge from just below the edge of the pad and that character can sometimes be useful in helping to identify this species (which seems to be often overlooked in general wildflower and similar books despite it being fairly widespread in southern Utah, and in some places, locally common). Flower color highly variable, fruit and seed characteristics however can be diagnostic.April 10, 2016, Garfield County, Head of the Rocks overlook area, Grand Staircase Escalante National Monment (GSENM), 6,160 ft. elev. (approx. 1880 m).
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Native mainly to Mexico, where it is known as Nopal Serrano. UC Berkeley Botanical Gardens.
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Rio San Juan, Nicaragua
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY (April 26, 2018)
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Tucson Mountains, Saguaro National Park West. April 18, 2010
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California, United States
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Denver, Colorado, United States
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Bonshaw, New South Wales, Australia
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Opuntia polyacantha Haw. var. erinacea (Engelm. & Bigelow) Parfitt. (synonyms include O. erinacea var. ursina). Another common name is Mojave prickly pearBarely enters Utah in extreme southwestern Utah and is also found in Arizona, Nevada (as here) and California. In Utah (and probably also in adjoining Clark County) the flowers are always pink.April 25, 1986, Virgin River Recreation Area, Mohave County, Arizona
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Orinda, California, United States
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Fruit of the Fire-flowered Prickly Pear, known in its native Mexico as Arrastradillo or as Nopal Serrano. UC Berkeley Botanical Gardens.
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Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
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Denver, Colorado, United States
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Padova, Veneto, Italia
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California, United States
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A cactus with many names and varieties, native from central Mexico into the southwestern U.S. Found in chaparral, grasslands and pine woods. Photo from Baja California, likely planted.
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Santa Rita, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
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Serra de Collserola. Barcelona: Catalunya (Espaa)AsilvestradaFamilia: CACTACEAE.Originaria de Mxico,estados de Zacatecas,Hidalgo etc.Crece bien en substratos algo humiferos.Apta para su cultivo en la costa mediterrnea.En maceta mantener seca en invierno a un mnimo de 2 CEncl. ilustr. de los Cactus y otras Sucul. Tomo I (A. Gmez Snchez). Estracto.
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Denver, Colorado, United States
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Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Mill., syn.: Opuntia ficus-barbarica Berg.Prickly Pear, Barbary Fig, DE: Echter FeigenkaktusSlo.: opuncijaDat.: April 27. 2016Lat.: 35.50955 Long.: 23.60876Code: Bot_952/2016_DSC1730Habitat: roadside; semiruderal place, border of an unmaintained garden, almost flat terrain; stony, skeletal ground, full sun, elevation 37 m (120 feet); average precipitations 900 - 1100 mm/year, average temperature about 18 deg C, Mediterranean phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil.Place: Outskirts of village Kalivani near town Kisamos, northwest Crete, island Crete, Greece EC. Comment: Opuntia ficus-indica is a familiar cactus, which origins in tropical America. It is believed that it was introduced to Europe by Christopher Columbus. Today broadly spread in all Mediterranean countries and often cultivated, it is already naturalized plant in many regions. Here are there one can find it also in Slovenian submediterranean phytogeographical region, but only as a cultivar.Its fruits are edible. Surprisingly it has few and small spines. A bigger problem are its short, partly hooked and brittle bristles, which are very unpleasant when in your skin. They grow mostly in tufts from many areolas (small, well-defined areas) on their leaves. In Crete its fruits are sold and consumed as an esteemed fruit. But, how natives get rid of annoying bristles remained a secret for me.Ref.:(1) I. Schnfelder, P. Schnfelder, Kosmos Atlas Mittelmeer- und Kanarenflora, Kosmos, (2002), p 132.(2) I. Schnfelder, P. Schnfelder, Was blht am Mittelmeer? Kosmos (2000), p 98.(3) M. Blamey, C. Grey-Wilson, Wild Flowers of the Mediterranean, A & C Black, London (2005), p 149.(4) R. Domac, Flora Hrvatske (Flora of Croatia) (in Croatian), kolska Knjiga, Zagreb (1994), p 72.(5) D. Seidel, Blumen am Mittelmeer, BLV (2002), p 75.(6) V. Papiomytoglou, Wildblumen aus Griechenland, Mediterraneo Editions (2006), p 33.