Opuntia bonplandii
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Opuntia bonplandii is a species of plant in the genus Opuntia ( Opuntia ) from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet honors the French naturalist Aimé Bonpland .
description
Opuntia bonplandii grows shrubby to tree-shaped, is open, loosely branched and reaches heights of up to 4 meters. The cloudy green, egg-shaped or almost egg-shaped shoot sections are 20 to 30 centimeters long. The two to seven needle-like, light yellow thorns are 1 to 1.5 inches long and soon fall off.
The orange-colored flowers reach a length of up to 6 centimeters and the same diameter.
Distribution and systematics
Opuntia bonplandii is widespread in Ecuador in the Azuay province .
It was first described as Cactus bonplandii in 1823 by Karl Sigismund Kunth . Frédéric Albert Constantin Weber placed the species in the genus Opuntia in 1898 .
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literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 451 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 28.
- ↑ Nova genera et species plantarum quas in peregrinatione ad plagam aequinoctialem orbis novi collegerunt Bonpland et Humboldt . Volume 6, Paris 1823, p. 69, (online) .
- ^ Dictionnaire d'Horticulture . Volume 2, 1898, pp. 894-895.