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Nopalea
Opuntia, commonly called the prickly pear cactus, is a genus of flowering plants in the cactus family Cactaceae, many known for their flavorful fruit and showy flowers. Prickly pear alone is more commonly used to refer exclusively to the fruit, but may also be used for the plant itself; in addition, other names given to the plant and its specific parts include tuna (fruit), sabra, nopal (pads, plural nopales) from the Nahuatl word nōpalli, nostle...
11 branches of this group, most-observed first

Cochineal Nopal Cactus
speciesOpuntia cochenillifera

Hummingbird Nopal
speciesOpuntia karwinskiana

Opuntia inaperta
speciesOpuntia inaperta

Opuntia dejecta
speciesOpuntia dejecta

Opuntia auberi
speciesOpuntia auberi
Opuntia guatemalensis
speciesOpuntia guatemalensis

Opuntia lutea
speciesOpuntia lutea

Opuntia gaumeri
speciesOpuntia gaumeri

Opuntia hondurensis
speciesOpuntia hondurensis

Opuntia nuda
speciesOpuntia nuda
Opuntia escuintlensis
speciesOpuntia escuintlensis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1491691.