Family: Cactaceae
Opuntia cylindrica
Citation:
DC., Prod. 3:471 (1828).
Synonymy: Cactus cylindricus Lam., Encycl. 1:539 (1783); Austrocylindropuntia cylindrica (Lam.)Backeb., Jahrb. Deutsch. Kakteen Ges. 1941, 2:12 (1942).
Common name: Cane cactus.
Description:
Somewhat branched shrub up to 4 m high; stems indistinctly jointed, cylindrical, c. 5 cm diam., covered with low rhomboid tubercles; leaves deciduous; areoles white-woolly, with some long hairs; spines 2 or 3 in the early stages, no sheaths present, white, to 1 cm long, often 0.
Flowers scarlet, to 2.5 cm across; fruit yellowish-green, to 5 cm long, tuberculate.
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Image source: fig 189c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Graf (1963) Exotica 3:478.
Distribution:
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Vic. Native to Ecuador and Peru.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: late spring — summer.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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