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Opuntia macrocentra var. macrocentra
Longspined Purple Pricklypear
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Photographer: E. Wynn Anderson
ID: 0000 0000 1018 1368 (2018-10-21)Copyright © 2018 Wynn Anderson
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date of photo Apr 20, 2018
latitude 30.78030 longitude 105.01740
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location
road to Squaw Spring, 0.4 miles north of Indio Mountain Research Station HQ, 0.3 miles south of junction with Oxford Canyon Road (Hudspeth County, Texas, US)family
Cactaceae
plant community Chihuahuan Desert scrub at 4061' (1238m)notes Low shrubs on hillside in mixed conglomerate gravels of Cretaceous Yucca Formation. Pads purplish throughout, 1-3 long spines per areole along upper pad margins, longest to +/- 8 inchs (10 cm), black with pale tips. Distinctive purple color produced by betacyanin pigments present in normally purplish tinged, gray-green pads but greatly enhanced by drought or cold stress.keywords: CDR, Chihuahuan Desert, Indio Mountains Research Station, IMRS
contributor's ID # CDR 179 photo category: Plant - shrub
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MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PLANT
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| common names
Longspined Purple Pricklypear, Black Spined Purple Pricklypear (photographer)
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