Opuntia littoralis
Opuntia littoralis
Opuntia littoralis is a species in the genus Opuntia ( Opuntia ) from the cactus family ( Cactaceae ). The specific epithet means littoralis, shore, beach, coast -loving, - inhabiting '. English common names are "Coastal Prickly Pear " and " Sprawling Prickly Pear ".
Description
Opuntia littoralis grows bushy, is spread out to a little upright, reaches stature heights of 30 to 60 inches wide and is up to 1 meter or more. The Glauk - green, obovate to elliptical to circular drive sections 7 to 30 centimeters long and 5-10 centimeters wide. The areoles are 1.5 to 3 inches apart. The yellow, ocher or brown union glochids are up to 4.5 mm long. There are one to eleven spreading to reflexed, straight to curved, brown, ockerliche, gray or yellow spines present, which also rarely absent. The spines are 2.5 to 7 inches long.
The flowers are yellow with a red or magenta base or occasionally pink purple or magenta. They reach a length of 5 to 7.5 centimeters in diameter and just such. The obovate reddish to reddish- purple fruits are fleshy. They are up to 4 inches long and have diameter of 2.5 to 3.8 centimeters on.
Systematics and distribution
Opuntia littoralis is distributed in the United States in the south of the state of California as well as in the Mexican states of Baja California and Baja California Sur.
The first description as Opuntia engelmannii var littoralis in 1876 by George Engelmann. Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell raised the variety in 1905 in the rank of a kind nomenklatorisches A synonym is Opuntia littoralis var lindheimeri ( Engelm. ) JMCoult. ( 1896).