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The west coast prickly apple is characterized by its slender columnar stems that sprawl out from a single base, simple or branched shoots and reaches heights of up to 6 meters. There are nine to eleven rounded ribs. The seven to nine needle-like, initially pink thorns turn gray with age and are up to 1 centimeter long.
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.
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]
It has several common names, including prickly gooseberry, eastern prickly gooseberry, dogberry, and dog bramble. It grows in rich forests, rocky slopes, and open heaths from New Brunswick south along the Appalachian Mountains to northern Alabama and west as far as Manitoba , the Dakotas and Oklahoma .
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 ...
Alyxia ruscifolia, commonly known as the chainfruit or prickly alyxia, is a shrub of high rainfall areas in eastern Australia. The natural range of distribution is from Wollongong in New South Wales to the Wet Tropics and further north to New Guinea .
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.
Opuntia chiangiana, commonly known as Chiang's prickly pear or the xoconostle, is a species of prickly pear cactus in the family Cactaceae. It was described by Léia Scheinvar and Gladys Manzanero in 2009. The species was named in honor of Fernando Chiang, who was a professor at the Institute of Biology of the National Autonomous University of ...