Citation: Engelm., Gdnrs' Chron. 19:627 (1883).

Synonymy: Pereskia (Peireskia) subulata Muhlenpf., Allg. Gartenz. 13:347 (1845); Austrocylindropuntia subulata (Muhlenpf.)Backeb., Jahrb. Deutsch. Kakteen Ges. 1939, 2:12 (1939).

Common name: Eves-pin cactus.

Description:
A coarse branching shrub to 4 m high; joints cylindrical, distinct, to 60 cm long and 4-6 cm thick; tubercles large, depressed, retuse, rhomboid; leaves often persistent, nearly cylindrical, acute, 5-12 cm long; spines often absent or at first 1 or 2, yellowish, to 8 cm long; glochids few, yellowish; leaves deciduous.

Flowers red or reddish, yellow or yellow-green.

Fruits with leafy appendages, 5-10 cm long, persistent, occasionally proliferous.

	Opuntia subulata
Image source: fig 188f in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Graf (1963) Exotica 3:480.

Distribution:    Native to South America. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: late — spring — summer.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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