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Texas Plains Pricklypear
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Texas Plains Pricklypear

Opuntia alta

Opuntia alta is a cactus species in the genus Opuntia. It is a large plant, with some older specimens forming trees to 4.6 metres (15 ft) tall. It is a naturally occurring hybrid of Opuntia engelmannii var. lindheimeri and O. stricta native to Texas and Louisiana.

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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 809293.