Opuntia echinocarpa
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| Opuntia echinocarpa | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Core eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Cactaceae |
| Genus: | Opuntia |
| Species: | O. echinocarpa |
| Binomial name | |
| Opuntia echinocarpa Engelm. & J.M.Bigelow | |
| Synonyms | |
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Cylindropuntia echinocarpa — (Engelm. & J.M. Bigelow) F.M. Knuth | |
Cylindropuntia echinocarpa — formerly Opuntia echinocarpa — is known as the Wiggins' cholla. [1] It is also known, depending on the cast of needle color, as golden cholla or silver cholla. [1]
This species is a plant of the desert chaparral plant community in California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Sonora, and Baja California. [1] [2]
Description
Main article: Cylindropuntia echinocarpa
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 USDA Plants Profile for Cylindropuntia echinocarpa (Wiggins' cholla)
- ↑ A Natural History of California, Alan Schoenherr; p. 360.
External links
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- Cylindropuntia echinocarpa species account from ARS Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)
- Cylindropuntia echinocarpa (Opuntia echinocarpa) — Photo gallery
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