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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 ]
It is commonly known as the prickly wild rose, prickly rose, bristly rose, wild rose or Arctic rose. It is a species of wild rose with a Holarctic distribution in northern regions of Asia, [ 3 ] Europe, [ 4 ] and North America.
Pinkava prickly pear: SW. Utah to NW. Arizona: 2n=88 Opuntia pittieri Britton & Rose: Colombia: Opuntia polyacantha Haw. Plains prickly pear, Starvation Prickly pear, Panhandle prickly pear: the Great Plains, Great Basin, Mojave Desert, Colorado Plateau, and the Rocky Mountains: 2n=22, 2n=44 Opuntia pottsii Salm-Dyck: SE. Arizona to W. Texas ...
Opuntia fragilis is a small, prostrate plant, up to 20 centimetres (8 in) tall. [3] The joints are tumid, fragile, easily detached, oval, elliptical, or subglobose, 3–5 cm (1–2 in) long and nearly as thick as broad, bright green.
Opuntia austrina, also known as the Florida prickly pear (with other common names such as the devils-tongue and hammock prickly pear), is a prickly pear cactus species that is endemic to Florida in the United States.
Both bear showy flowers in spring, which are followed by prickly or spiny capsules that split open in fall to release 1 or 2 nuts inside. Unlike actual chestnuts, the nuts of Aesculus species are ...
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 oricola is a species of prickly pear cactus known by the common name chaparral prickly pear. It is native to southern California and Baja California , where it grows in coastal sage scrub and chaparral habitats .