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The pedunculate, 5 cm wide flowers have prickly peduncles and sepals. [7] The flowers have four persistent sepals. [8] The gynoecium consists of 7–16 carpels. [4] The prickly fruit bears 8–20 [8] black, [5] arillate, [4] spherical, ovate, obovate, or ellipsoidal [9] 6-10 mm wide seeds [7] with a hard, smooth, wrinkled, [10] gnarled, or ...
Alyxia oblongata is an evergreen shrub growing up to 3 m (9.8 ft) high. [4] The dark glossy green leaves are borne in whorls of three or four on the twigs, and measure about 3.5 by 1 cm (1.38 by 0.39 in). [4]
Blepharis dhofarensis seeds in the prickly fruit heads were regarded as the very best fodder for camels by herders, especially milch camels. The leaves were also used as fodder. The fruits are mostly out of reach of the herds of goats, but herders would collect heads and extract the seeds to feed to sick or weak goats. [3]
Opuntia, commonly called the prickly pear cactus, is a genus of flowering plants in the cactus family Cactaceae, many known for their flavorful fruit and showy flowers. [1] Cacti are well-adapted to aridity; however, they are still vulnerable to alterations in precipitation and temperature driven by climate change. [ 2 ]
Common English names for the plant and its fruit are Indian fig opuntia, Barbary fig, cactus pear, prickly pear, and spineless cactus, among many others. [3] In Mexican Spanish, the plant is called nopal, a name that may be used in American English as culinary terms. Peninsular Spanish mostly uses higo chumbo for the fruit and chumbera for the ...
Only a few prickly currant plants per acre are sufficient to perpetuate blister rust. In an effort to eradicate the rust and protect the economically important Western white pine, a federal ban on the cultivation and propagation of all Ribes species, including Ribes lacustre, went into effect in the early 1910s. Eradication efforts beginning in ...
Eremogone aculeata (syn. Arenaria aculeata) is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common name prickly sandwort. It is native to the western United States, where it grows in the southern sagebrush steppe , mountainous areas, and volcanic soils, as well as on rocky slopes.
Dactylopius opuntiae can have a devastating impact on the production of both prickly pear fruit and cladodes as livestock feed. The species has a tendency to form colonies of varying sizes on cladodes, often completely covering the plant. This leads to the dropping of fruit and the drying out and eventual falling off of the cladodes.