Opuntia crystalenia
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Opuntia crystalenia is a species of plant in the genus Opuntia ( Opuntia ) from the cactus family(Cactaceae). The specific epithet crystalenia means '(Latin. Crystalenius) crystal-like'.
description
Opuntia crystalenia grows like a tree with upright branches and reaches heights of 2 to 2.5 meters. The blue-green, with age yellowish, broadly obovate shoot sections are up to 25 centimeters long and up to 18 centimeters wide. The awl leaf rudiments on it are up to 4 millimeters long. The areoles are only thorny in the upper parts of the shoot. The glochids are yellow. The two (rarely one to four) protruding thorns are white and 1 to 1.5 centimeters long.
The flowers are yellow. The almost spherical fruits have a diameter of 4 to 4.5 centimeters.
Distribution and systematics
Opuntia crystalenia is widely cultivated in the highlands of Mexico .
It was first described in 1916 by David Griffiths .
proof
literature
- Edward F. Anderson : The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 , p. 453 .