Family: Cactaceae
Opuntia tunicata
Citation:
Link & Otto in Pfeiffer, Enum. Cact. 170 (1837).
Synonymy: Cactus tunicata Lehm., Ind. Sem. Hamburg. 1827:6 (1827); Cylindropuntia tunicata (Lehm.)F. Knuth in Backeb. & F. Knuth, Kaktus-ABC 126 (1935).
Common name: None
Description:
Generally low and bushy, sometimes developing a trunk; joints cylindrical, tuberculate, readily detached, short or up to 15 cm long; spines reddish at first, then white, sheathed, 6-10, to 5 cm long; leaves mostly deciduous.
Flowers yellow, c. 3 cm long.
Fruits green to yellowish-green, tuberculate, c. 3 cm long.
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Image source: fig. 189d 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, 480, 485.
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Distribution:
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Native to Mexico and Ecuador to Chile.
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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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Author:
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