Cylindropuntia fulgida
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Cylindropuntia fulgida is a species of the genus Cylindropuntia in the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet fulgida means '(Latin fulgidus) shimmering, shiny'. English trivial names are "Boxing-Glove Cactus", "Boxing-Glove Cholla", "Brinkadora", "Chain-Fruit Cholla", "Club Cactus", "Jumping Cholla", "Smooth Chain-Fruit Cholla", and "Sonoran Jumping" Cholla ".
description
Cylindropuntia fulgida grows tree-like with richly branched, spreading crowns and reaches heights of 1 to 3 meters. Widely divergent, branched trunks are formed. On the shoot sections, which are completely enveloped in thorns, are gray-green and later blackish, 6 to 23 centimeters long and 2 to 3.5 centimeters in diameter, there are broad oval cusps. Terminal shoot sections fall off slightly. The triangular golden to tan woolen areoles turn gray to black with age and have yellow glochids 1 to 3 millimeters long . The up to 18 thorns are present or almost absent on almost all areoles. They are upright to expanded to curved downward, yellow, and darken with age. The longest of them are up to 3.5 inches long. The loosely or closely fitting sheaths of the thorns are whitish to yellowish.
The pink to magenta colored flowers open in the afternoon. The gray-green, inverted conical, indistinctly tuberous fruits are fleshy and not thorny. They are 2 to 5.5 inches long and 1.3 to 4.5 inches in diameter. The fruits proliferate and form long hanging chains.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 22 or 33.
Distribution, systematics and endangerment
Cylindropuntia fulgida is distributed in the United States in the state of Arizona and in the Mexican states of Sonora , Sinaloa and possibly Baja California in the Sonoran desert at altitudes of up to 1200 meters. The species is also found in South Africa and Australia . However, there it develops into an invasive species.
The first description as Opuntia fulgida by George Engelmann was published in 1856. Frederik Marcus Knuth placed the species in the genus Cylindropuntia in 1936 . A distinction is made between the following varieties :
- Cylindropuntia fulgida var. Fulgida
- Cylindropuntia fulgida var. Mamillata (A. Schott ex Engelm.) Backeb.
In the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN , the species is listed as " Least Concern (LC) ". H. listed as not endangered.
use
The fruits are collected. The gummy sap is used medicinally.
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 171 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Opuntia fulgida at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ^ Synopsis of the Cactaceae of the Territory of the United States and Adjacent Regions . Metcalf, Cambridge 1856, pp. 50-51 (online) .
- ↑ Cactus ABC . 1936, p. 126.
- ↑ Cylindropuntia fulgida in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014.1. Posted by: Pinkava, DJ, Baker, M. & Puente, R., 2013. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
