Opuntia repens
Opuntia repens is a species in the genus Opuntia ( Opuntia ) from the cactus family ( Cactaceae ). The specific epithet repens means crawling '.
Description
Opuntia repens grows low shrubby with erect or ascending branches, is richly branched and forms clumps with stature heights of up to 50 centimeters and a diameter of 4 meters. The green to olive green, bare or downy, strongly flattened, elongated to linealischen drive sections 5 to 16 inches long and up to 3.5 inches wide. The non-raised areoles are 1 to 1.5 inches apart. Your yellowish brown glochids are up to 3 millimeters long. The three to six needle-like, yellowish brown spines are whitish in old age. They are up to 4 inches long.
The flowers are yellow and reach a diameter of up to 4 inches. The red fruits are 2-3 inches long.
Systematics and distribution
Opuntia repens is common in Puerto Rico and adjacent islands in the Caribbean.
The first description by Domingo Bello y Espinosa was published in 1881.