Opuntia vulgaris
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2. O. vulgaris Miller View in CoL , Gard. Diet. ed. 8, no. 1 (1768)
( O. humifusa Rafin. ).
Procumbent and spreading, or sometimes ascending shrub up to 0- 5 m; joints 3—13(—17) cm, orbicular to oblong, thick, dark green. Leaves 4-8 mm, subulate, patent; areoles distant; spines 0-1 (-2), up to 5 cm, brownish or whitish; glochids numerous, yellow to dark brown. Flowers 5-9 cm in diameter, bright yellow, sometimes reddish in centre; filaments yellow; stigma-lobes white. Fruit 2-5-5 cm, obovoid to oblong, red, succulent, edible; seeds 4-5 mm wide. Naturalized on rocks and walls in S. & S.C. Europe. [Au?Co Cr Ga Gr He Ho It Ju.] (£. North America, from Alabama to Ontario.)
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Opuntia vulgaris
| Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. 1981 |
O. vulgaris Miller
| O. vulgaris Miller , Gard. Diet. ed. 8, no. 1 (1768) |