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==Description== ==Description==

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Opuntia echinocarpa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Core eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Cactaceae
Genus: Opuntia
Species: O. echinocarpa
Binomial name
Opuntia echinocarpa
Engelm. & J.M.Bigelow
Synonyms

Cylindropuntia echinocarpa — (Engelm. & J.M. Bigelow) F.M. Knuth

Cylindropuntia echinocarpa — formerly Opuntia echinocarpa — is known as the Wiggins' cholla. It is also known, depending on the cast of needle color, as golden cholla or silver cholla.

This species is a plant of the desert chaparral plant community in California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Sonora, and Baja California.

Description

Main article: Cylindropuntia echinocarpa

See also

References

  1. ^ USDA Plants Profile for Cylindropuntia echinocarpa (Wiggins' cholla)
  2. A Natural History of California, Alan Schoenherr; p. 360.

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