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Opuntia azurea var. parva
Big Bend Purple Prickly Pear
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Photographer: E. Wynn Anderson
ID: 0000 0000 0218 1050 (2018-02-15)Copyright © 2018 Wynn Anderson
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date of photo Mar 7, 2015
latitude 29.28760 longitude 103.50390
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location
Old Maverick Road, graded road to Santa Elena Canyon, 5.2 miles south of Maverick Junction and paved highway east to Panther Junction, west to TX 118 & Study Butte, Big Bend National Park (Brewster County, Texas, US)family
Cactaceae
plant community Chihuahuan Desert scrub at 2733' (833m)''notes low, compact, sprawling plant on volcanic soil and gravel of flat alluvial plain. Pads blue-gray, glaucous, with purplish tinge along pad margins and around areoles, with 1-3 long (10+/-cm), dark spines with white tip. This is one of the segregates from Opuntia macrocentra by Powell & Weedin (2004).keywords: CDR, Chihuahuan Desert, Big Bend
photo category: Plant - shrub
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Big Bend Purple Prickly Pear (photographer)
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