Opuntia arenaria - Dune Pricklypear
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Description: Image, description, and range of this rare plant in New Mexico.
(Dune pricklypear, sand pricklypear, sandbur cactus) Dune pricklypear, sand pricklypear, sandbur cactus Stem consisting of loosely attached flattened joints up to 8 cm in length by 2-3 cm in width, the joints highly varied in size and shape, bearing areoles with dense clumps of yellowish glochids; rhizomes and often larger roots also often bearing glochids; spines in areoles on stems slender and barbed, up to about 1.5 or exceptionally 2.5 cm long, about 3-10 per areole; spines on ovary and fruit smaller; flowers about 3-6 cm across, yellow, sometimes fading to orange; stigmas green; fruit drying to tan, rigid-walled, brittle; seeds deep brown to nearly black, invested in a hard bony off-white aril, irregular in shape, discoid with a prominent rim, roughly 5-7 mm in diameter. Flowers in May to June.
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| NS | Name Servers: ARIEL.UNM.EDU 129.24.8.1 DEIMOS.UNM.EDU 129.24.8.4 |
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| Date | activated: 27-Aug-1986 last updated: 28-Apr-2008 expires: 31-Jul-2014 |