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Opuntia leucotricha

Citation: DC., Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 17:118 (1828).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Treelike, to 5 m high, joints flattened, oblong to orbicular, 10-25 cm long, pubescent; areoles close-set, with many yellow glochids; spines 1-3 at first then several later, to 7 cm long, white, bristle-like; leaves deciduous.

Flowers yellow, to 7 cm across; fruit c. 5 cm long, white to red, aromatic and edible.

image of FSA1_Opuntia_leu.jpg Opuntia leucotricha
Image source: fig 188e in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Graf (1963) Exotica 3:482; Backeberg (1958) Die Cactaceae 1:pl. 527.

Distribution:    Native of Mexico.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: late spring — summer.


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