Opuntia helleri
Opuntia helleri
Opuntia helleri is a flowering plant in the genus Opuntia ( Opuntia ) from the cactus family ( Cactaceae ). The epithet of the species honors the American zoologists Edmund Heller, who discovered the species.
Description
Opuntia helleri grows stretched or climbing and often forms dense cushions with a growth of 0.7 to 2 meters. A strain is not usually formed. The yellowish green shoot sections are round, oblong or ovate, 20 to 37 inches long, 10 to 22 inches wide and 1.3 to 2.6 inches thick. The yellow, 2-6 mm long glochids missing sometimes. The different lengths of 7-28 spines are yellowish white, will be distributed at the age darker and are evenly over the engine. You are bristly, not dimorphic, not pointed, spread and pliable.
The yellow flowers are 4-8 inches long and can reach diameter 3 to 5.5 centimeters. The fruits are green, spherical to elongated and covered with small thorns and glochids.
Systematics and distribution
Opuntia helleri is disseminated to the lying in Columbus Archipelago islands Isla Darwin, Isla Genovesa, Marchena Island and Isla Wolf.
The first description was in 1902 by Karl Moritz Schumann.