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Phyllosticta concava, also known as opuntia dry rot [1] or prickly pear brown spot, is a species of fungus that infects opuntia cactus, leaving discolored circular depressions in the pads. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The species was first formally described by the mycologist Fred Jay Seaver in 1922.
The prickly pear is the official plant of Texas by legislation from 1995. [47] The cactus lends its name to a song by British jazz/classical group Portico Quartet. [citation needed] The song "My Rival", on the album Gaucho by the American jazz-pop group Steely Dan begins with the words, "The wind was driving in my face/The smell of prickly pear ...
Opuntia engelmannii is a prickly pear common across the south-central and Southwestern United States and northern Mexico.It goes by a variety of common names, including desert prickly pear, discus prickly pear, Engelmann's prickly pear [2] in the US, and nopal, abrojo, joconostle, and vela de coyote in Mexico.
Opuntia polyacantha is a common species of cactus known by the common names plains pricklypear, [3] [4] starvation pricklypear, [5] hairspine cactus, [3] and panhandle pricklypear. [2] It is native to North America, where it is widespread in Western Canada , the Great Plains , the central and Western United States , and Chihuahua in northern ...
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Opuntia fragilis is a small, prostrate plant, rarely more than 10 cm (4 in) high: joints tumid, fragile, easily detached, oval, elliptical, or subglobose, 3–5 cm (1–2 in) long and nearly as thick as broad, bright green: areoles 0.6–1.3 cm (1 ⁄ 4 – 1 ⁄ 2 in) apart, with whitish wool and a few white to yellow bristles, which are much longer and more abundant on older joints; spines 1 ...
This species naturally occurs along the East Coast of the United States, including on barrier islands from the Florida Keys to coastal Massachusetts. [5] Eastern prickly pear is found in scattered locations from New Mexico and Montana eastward, [6] and is one of two cactus species native to the eastern United States, along with the related O. cespitosa. [7]
Ortenzi is convinced the hardy and versatile cactus pear, otherwise called the prickly pear or, in Italy, the Indian fig, can be a highly profitable solution yielding a raft of products such as ...