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Family: Cactaceae
Opuntia pachypus

Citation: Schumann, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 14:26 (1904).

Synonymy: Cylindropuntia pachypus (Schumann)Backeb. in Backeb. & F. Knuth, Kaktus-ABC 120 (1935); Austrocylindropuntia pachypus (Schumann)Backeb., Jahrb. Deutsch. Kakteen Ges. 1941, 2:13 (1942).

Common name: None

Description:
Shrub to 1 m high; joints distinct, symmetrically tuberculate, 3-5 cm long; spines 20-30, subulate, 5-20 mm long, no sheaths present; glochids yellow; leaves small, early caducous.

Flowers scarlet, to 7 cm long.

Fruit often green to yellow-green, proliferating.

image of FSA1_Opuntia_pac.jpg Opuntia pachypus
Image source: fig. 189i in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Graf (1978) Tropica, p. 328.

Distribution:    native to Peru.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: late spring — summer.


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