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Hitchcock's prickly pear
Opuntia hitchcockii
About
Opuntia hitchcockii, commonly known as Hitchcock's prickly pear, is a species of prickly pear cactus in the family Cactaceae. It was described by Jesús González Ortega in 1929. The species range spreads throughout parts of Sinaloa, and Nayarit, where it grows primarily in the dry shrub-land zone of Mexico.
- Family
- Cactaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Opuntia hitchcockii
- Slug
- opuntia-hitchcockii
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Genus
- Opuntia
- Species
- hitchcockii
- Wikidata QID
- Q1414087
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 28
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