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Species
Opuntia stricta (Haw.) Haw. var. dillenii (KerGawl.) L.D.Benson
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Flower
Solitary, sessile; yellow. Flowering throughout the year.
Fruit
An obovoid berry; purple when ripe; seeds many. Fruiting throughout the year.
Field tips
Stem jointed, fleshy, flattened. Spines 5-7 per areoles. Leaves early caducous.
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Major Threats
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Shrubs, sprawling or erect, to 2 m. Stem segments not dis-articulating, green, flattened, narrowly elliptic or obovate, 10-25(-40) × 7.5-15(-25) cm, tuberculate, making margins appear scalloped between raised areoles, glabrous; areoles 3-5 per diagonal row across midstem segment, oval, 3-6.5 × 3.5 mm; wool dense, tan. Spines 0-11 per areole, in nearly all areoles to only in some marginal areoles or absent, spreading in all directions, yellow, aging brown, straight or curving, the longest stout, oval in cross section, 12-40(-60) mm, not markedly barbed. Glochids in-conspicuous, few to many in crescent at adaxial edge of areole, yellow, aging brown, often incurved, subequal to increasing in length toward adaxial edge of areole, to 4 mm. Flowers: inner tepals light yellow throughout, 25-30 mm; filaments yellow; anthers yellow; style and stigma lobes yellowish. Fruits purplish throughout, stipitate, ellipsoid or barrel-shaped, 40-60 × 25-30(-40) mm, juicy, spineless; areoles 6-10. Seeds tan, subcircular, 4-5 × 4-4.5 mm, with slightly irregular surface; girdle protruding to 1 mm. 2n = 44 (cultivated), 66.
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Comments: Most cacti subject to horticultural collecting.
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"Habit: An armed, succulent shrub, upto 1m."
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Conservation Actions
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Cactus strictus Haworth, Misc. Nat., 188. 1803; Opuntia dillenii (Ker Gawler) Haworth; O. inermis (de Candolle) de Candolle; O. stricta var. dillenii (Ker Gawler) L. D. Benson
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"Indigenous Information: Fruits are edible and helps to increase appetite. Excessive amounts may cause diaorrhea. Flowers are used to treat heat boils. Fruits eaten by peacocks, squirrels and hares."
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Holotype for Opuntia anahuacensis Griffiths
Catalog Number: US 2436973
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Verified from the card file of type specimens
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): D. Griffiths
Year Collected: 1910
Locality: Texas, United States, North America
- Holotype: Griffiths, D. 1916. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club. 43: 92.
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The orange-red coloured fruits are edible after the spines have been carefully removed. Often planted as a fence.
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