Opuntia stricta, (Haw.) Haw.
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4. O. stricta (Haw.) Haw. View in CoL , Syn. Pl. Succ. 191 (1812).
Low, spreading bush up to 0- 8 m; joints 8-15(-30) cm, obovate to oblong, rather thick, green or bluish-green. Leaves 3-4 mm, subulate, stout; areoles distant, brownish-lanate; spines 0-2, 1 -4 cm, rigid, terete, yellow; glochids short. Flowers 6-7 cm in diameter, yellow; filaments yellow to greenish; style usually white; stigma-lobes white or greenish. Fruit 4-6 cm, obovoid, with slender base and more or less depressed umbilicus, red. Naturalized on the coast of S.E. France. [Ga.] (IF. Cuba, S.E. United States.)
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Opuntia stricta
| Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. 1981 |
O. stricta
| Haw. 1812: 191 |