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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.
Rust, Kern's pear Gymnosporangium kernianum. Rust, Pacific Coast pear Gymnosporangium libocedri. Rust, pear trellis (European pear rust) Gymnosporangium fuscum. Rust, Rocky Mountain pear Gymnosporangium nelsonii. Side rot Phialophora malorum. Silver leaf Chondrostereum purpureum. Sooty blotch Gloeodes pomigena. Thread blight (Hypochnus leaf blight)
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.
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 ...
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 ]
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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.
Dactylopius opuntiae can also have a strong negative impact on both the production of prickly pear fruit for fresh consumption and on cladodes as fodder for livestock feed. The cochineal species tends to form variably sized colonies on cladodes, which in some cases are totally covered by the insect.