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Elephantear Pricklypear

Opuntia tuna (L.) Mill.

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Opuntia tuna (Elephantear Pricklypear) is a species of woody plants in the family cacti.

  • URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q757163
  • Definition: a plant that produces wood as its structural tissue. Wood is a structural cellular adaptation that allows woody plants to grow from above ground stems year after year, thus making some woody plants the largest and tallest terrestrial plants. Wood is usually primarily composed of xylem cells with cell walls made of cellulose and lignin
  • Attribution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_plant
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EOL has data for 11 attributes, including:

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of elephantear pricklypear. View this species on GBIF