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Floristic Inventory of the Bahama Archipelago Database Online

Opuntia cochenillifera (L.) Mill.
Prickly pear, Scurge needle

Opuntia cochenillifera
Copyright by: Keith A. Bradley

Family: Cactaceae

Group: Dicot

Perennation: Perennial

Habit: Shrub

Substrate: Terrestrial

Native Status: Not Native, Naturalized

Native Range: Probably native to Mexico, but its origins obscured through widespread cultivation.

Map of Locations [currently Florida only]

Comments: For information and images from Eleuthera, visit the Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve website.

Synonyms: Nopalea cochenillifera.

Other data on Opuntia cochenillifera available from :

Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants
Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants
Opuntia cochenillifera has been reported for the following habitat in Bahama Archipelago :
Coppice

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Opuntia cochenillifera
Copyright by: Keith A. Bradley