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Opuntia engelmannii
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Opuntia engelmannii is a prickly pear common across the south-central and Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It goes by a variety of common names, including desert prickly pear, discus prickly pear, Engelmann's prickly pear in the US, and nopal, abrojo, joconostle, and vela de coyote in Mexico.
- Family
- Cactaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Opuntia engelmannii
- Slug
- opuntia-engelmannii
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Genus
- Opuntia
- Species
- engelmannii
- Wikidata QID
- Q142016
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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