Family: Cactaceae
Opuntia tomentosa
Citation:
Salm-Dyck, Obs. Bot. 3:8 (1822).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Velvet pear, velvety tree-pear.
Description:
Tree-like, to 7 m; trunk smooth, to 30 cm thick; joints flattened, oblong or narrowly obovate, velvety-pubescent, greyish-green, 10-20 cm long; spines often absent or 1 or 2, short, white, set in yellow glochids; leaves deciduous.
Flowers orange, to 5 cm across.
Fruit red, ovoid.
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Image source: fig 188a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Graf (1963) Exotica 3:477, 481.
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Distribution:
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S.Aust.: FR, EP, MU, SL. Native to Mexico.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: late spring — summer.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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