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Opuntia phaeacantha var. phaeacantha; Brown Spined Pricklypear   

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Opuntia phaeacantha var. phaeacantha
Opuntia phaeacantha var. phaeacantha
Brown Spined Pricklypear
Photographer: E. Wynn Anderson

ID: 0000 0000 1018 1528 (2018-10-24)

Copyright © 2018 Wynn Anderson

 
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  • date of photo  Apr 20, 2018
  • latitude 30.78030   longitude 105.01740     View on Google Maps.
  • location   road to Squaw Spring, 0.4 miles north of Indio Mountains Research Station HQ, 0.3 miles south of junction with road to Oxford Canyon (Hudspeth County, Texas, US)
  • family Cactaceae
  • plant community   Chihuahuan Desert scrub at 4061' (1238m)
  • notes   Low spreading shrub on hillside in mixed conglomerate gravels of Cretaceous Yucca Formation. Note trailing habit of spreading stems, brown spines
  • keywords: CDR, Chihuahuan Desert, IMRS, Indio
  • contributor's ID #  CDR 165
  • photo category: Plant - shrub

  • MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PLANT
  • common names   Brown Spined Pricklypear, Tulip Pricklypear (photographer)
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