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Opuntia cochenillifera
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Opuntia cochenillifera is a species of cactus in the subfamily Opuntioideae. It may have been endemic to Mexico, but has been widely introduced. The first description was in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus as Cactus cochenillifer. Philip Miller renamed it as Opuntia cochenillifera in 1768.
- Family
- Cactaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Opuntia cochenillifera
- Slug
- opuntia-cochenillifera
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Genus
- Opuntia
- Species
- cochenillifera
- Wikidata QID
- Q310979
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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