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  2. Opuntia - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Opuntia ficus-indica - Wikipedia

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    Opuntia ficus-indica, the Indian fig opuntia, fig opuntia, or prickly pear, is a species of cactus that has long been a domesticated crop plant grown in agricultural economies throughout arid and semiarid parts of the world. [3]

  4. Opuntia engelmannii - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Cactus pear is a crop with potential in Italy's parched south ...

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    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 ...

  6. Opuntia macrocentra - Wikipedia

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    Opuntia macrocentra, the long-spined purplish prickly pear or purple pricklypear, is a cactus found in the lower Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico. A member of the prickly pear genus, this species of Opuntia is most notable as one of a few cacti that produce a purple pigmentation in the stem. Other common names for this plant ...

  7. Opuntia rufida - Wikipedia

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    The common name blind prickly pear or cow blinder comes from the fact that the glochids may be carried away by the wind and blind animals. [2] [3] The plant is closely related to Opuntia microdasys, and is sometimes taken as its subspecies, O. m. subsp. rufida. [4] A commonly sold cultivar is Opuntia Rufida Minima Monstrose

  8. Opuntia phaeacantha - Wikipedia

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    Opuntia phaeacantha is a species of prickly pear cactus known by the common names brown-spine prickly pear, tulip prickly pear, and desert prickly pear found across the southwestern United States, lower Great Plains, and northern Mexico. The plant forms dense but localized thickets.

  9. Opuntia cespitosa - Wikipedia

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    Opuntia cespitosa, commonly called the eastern prickly pear, [1] is a species of cactus native to North America. It is most common west of the Appalachian Mountains and east of the Mississippi River , where it is found in the Midwest , Upper South and in Ontario . [ 1 ]