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Opuntia phaeacantha
About
Opuntia phaeacantha is a species of prickly pear cactus known by the common names brown-spine prickly pear, tulip prickly pear, and desert prickly pear, which is found across the southwestern United States, lower Great Plains, and northern Mexico. The plant forms dense but localized thickets. Several varieties of this particular species occur, and it may hybridize with other prickly pears, making identification sometimes tricky.
- Family
- Cactaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Opuntia phaeacantha
- Slug
- opuntia-phaeacantha
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Genus
- Opuntia
- Species
- phaeacantha
- Wikidata QID
- Q136725
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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