Opuntia engelmannii is a prickly pear common across the south-central and Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It goes by a variety of common names, including desert prickly pear, discus prickly pear, Engelmann's prickly pear [2] in the US, and nopal, abrojo, joconostle, and vela de coyote in Mexico.

Opuntia engelmannii is perhaps the most widespread of all prickly pear cacti, ranging from southeast California all the way to Louisiana, and is also one of the largest, with light green or bluish green pads up to 12 inches across, forming sizeable clusters several feet tall.

Opuntia engelmannii (Engelmann Prickly Pear) is a bushy succulent shrub with light green or bluish green, egg-shaped, fleshy pads, up to 12 in. across (30 cm). It forms sizeable clusters and grows either upright or spreading.

2024年3月10日 · The prickly pear cactus, or opuntia cactus, is a genus of flowering cactus in the shape of a pear, hence their common name. There are dozens of varieties of prickly pears, with many found in deserts of the United States and some grown as …

Opuntia engelmannii is a shrubby or tree-like cactus with a short or usually absent trunk and yellow-green to blue-green, segmented stems with areoles in diagonal rows, bearing tufts of glochids and usually 1 to 3 spines.

2015年6月5日 · Opuntia engelmannii var. linguiformis, Cactus Apple; (TX). Comments: Cactus Apple is a common Prickly Pear in the southwestern United States. It has beautiful showy large yellow flowers and striking deep red or magenta large fruit. Opuntia engelmannii was named in honor of George Engelmann, (1809-1884) was a German-American botanist.

Opuntia engelmannii Salm-Dyck ex Engelm. Altitude range: 150 to 1,800 metres above sea level. Habitat and ecology: Desert scrub, dry grasslands, pine-juniper and oak woodland, etc. In the Sonoran Desert, terminal pads face predominantly east-west, so as to maximize the absorption of solar radiation during summer rains.

Scientific: Opuntia engelmannii Common: Texas pricklypear, desert pricklypear, nopal. Other common names are usually specific to the varietal selection. Origin: Variously located at elevations below 4,500 feet in the northern Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts from California to Texas south into Mexico. Pronounciation: O-PUN-tee-a en-gel-MAN-nee-i.

Opuntia engelmannii (including O. gregoriana) is a common and large prickly pear. It has been confused with other large cactus species such as O. valida or O. orbiculata. Green and Ferguson (2011) provide a longer account of "lumped and unlumped" opuntiads (Index 3).

Opuntia engelmannii is a prickly pear common across the south-central and Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It goes by a variety of common names, including cow's tongue cactus, cow tongue prickly pear, desert prickly pear, discus prickly pear, Engelmann's prickly pear, and Texas prickly pear in the US, and nopal, abrojo ...