Amazing combination of huge thick spines like an Argentinian toothpick saguaro and very waxy smooth pads that can easily be held bare-han...Read Moreded without fear of attacking glochids (at least my cultivar is absent of them). The white glochid patches normally found on Opuntias are spaced very wide apart and are bare of prickly hairs in this species found naturally in Bolivia and Argentina.
The flowers are reported to be Red only. Maybe on the outside of the petals or sepals they are red, mine are orange mostly. The Pads are ...Read Morereported to be elliptical & obovate, flattened & shiny green-gray. Measurements of the pads are up to 20 inches long and 10 inches wide.
Amazing combination of huge thick spines like an Argentinian toothpick saguaro and very waxy smooth pads that can easily be held bare-han...Read More
This has the longest spines of any Opuntia: sometimes more than 8 inches (20 cm) on older stems!
The flowers are reported to be Red only. Maybe on the outside of the petals or sepals they are red, mine are orange mostly. The Pads are ...Read More
large highly branching plant with bright orange flowers in late spring... sparsely spined. From Bolivia