Opuntia tetracantha
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Opuntia tetracantha, Toumey. An irregularly branching shrub, 2-5 ft. high, primary branches from a stout, upright trunk 2-4 in. diam., and bearing numerous short lateral ones at irregular intervals: joints very variable in length, usually 4-10 in. long and ½ in. thick: areoles with whitish wool and a crescent-shaped tuft of light brown bristles; spines 4, rarely more or less, ¾-1½ in. long, stout, loosely sheathed, straw-colored, flattened, strongly deflexed, not increasing in numbers on older joints: fls. greenish purple, ½-1 in. broad: fr. obovate to subglobose, ½-1 in. long, juicy, scarlet, unarmed, or with a few stiff deflexed spines. Ariz.— One of the most attractive of the cylindrical opuntias on account of its numerous bright scarlet frs.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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