Citation: DC., Prod. 3:471 (1828).

Synonymy: Cactus cylindricus Lam., Encycl. 1:539 (1783); Austrocylindropuntia cylindrica (Lam.)Backeb., Jahrb. Deutsch. Kakteen Ges. 1941, 2:12 (1942).

Common name: Cane cactus.

Description:
Somewhat branched shrub up to 4 m high; stems indistinctly jointed, cylindrical, c. 5 cm diam., covered with low rhomboid tubercles; leaves deciduous; areoles white-woolly, with some long hairs; spines 2 or 3 in the early stages, no sheaths present, white, to 1 cm long, often 0.

Flowers scarlet, to 2.5 cm across; fruit yellowish-green, to 5 cm long, tuberculate.

	Opuntia cylindrica
Image source: fig 189c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Graf (1963) Exotica 3:478.

Distribution:    Vic.   Native to Ecuador and Peru. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: late spring — summer.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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