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Opuntia phaeacantha var. phaeacantha; Brownspine Pricklypear   

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Opuntia phaeacantha var. phaeacantha
Opuntia phaeacantha var. phaeacantha
Brownspine Pricklypear
Photographer: E. Wynn Anderson

ID: 0000 0000 0318 0160 (2018-03-02)

Copyright © 2018 Wynn Anderson

 
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  • date of photo  Mar 22, 2012
  • latitude 32.22200   longitude 106.60570     View on Google Maps.
  • location   Pena Blanca, ca. 1 air mile north of unpaved County road BO59 on local dirt track along west side of southern Organ Mts (Dona Ana County, New Mexico, US)
  • family Cactaceae
  • plant community   Chihuahuan Desert Creosote scrub at 4600' (1400m)
  • notes   annual in coarse volcanic sand and gravels of reddish to yellow rhyolite basally surrounding small eroding hill isolated from main mass of the southern end of Organ Mountains. NOTE: low trailing habit of the pads
  • keywords: CDR, Chihuahuan Desert
  • photo category: Plant - shrub

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