Opuntia galapageia
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Opuntia galapageia, Hensl. An upright, wee-like plant 6-10 ft. high, with a circular, spreading crown and a very spiny trunk, 6-8 in. diam., and light-colored bark becoming loosened land hanging in fragments from the older sts.: joints elliptical to oblong, thick, 10-14 in. long: spines at first 3-4, spreading, flexible, increasing in number and size with age, finally covering the joints with long, brush-like bundles: fls. small, less than 1 in. wide, red: fr. subglobose, red. Galapagos Isls.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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