Opuntia monacantha, Haw.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 299

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scientific name

Opuntia monacantha
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3. O. monacantha Haw. View in CoL , Suppl. Pl. Succ. 81 (1819)

( O. vulgaris auct., non Miller).

Somewhat tree-like, 2-4(-6) m, often with cylindrical, spiny or smooth trunk 15 cm in diameter, usually much-branched at apex; joints 10-30 cm, ovate to oblong, narrowed at base, bright shining green. Leaves 2-3 mm, subulate; areoles shortly lanate; spines 1—2(—10 on trunk), 1-4 cm, erect, yellowish to dark reddish. Flowers golden-yellow; filaments greenish; style white; stigma-lobes white. Fruit 5-7- 5 cm, obovoid, reddish-purple, long-persisting, sometimes proliferous. Naturalized on the coast of S.E. France and possibly elsewhere. [?Co Ga?He?Hs?It?Lu.] (E. South America.)

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Caryophyllales

Family

Cactaceae

Genus

Opuntia

Loc

Opuntia monacantha

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. 1981
1981
Loc

O. monacantha

Haw. 1819: 81
1819
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