giant prickly pear cactus opuntia robusta paddles with long sharp thorns

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Giant prickly pear cactus (opuntia robusta) paddles with long sharp thorns

Opuntia robusta, has synonyms Opuntia camuessa, Opuntia gorda, Opuntia guerrana, Opuntia larreyi and whose common names include Wheel Cactus, Giant Prickly Pear Cactus, Wheel Pear, Silver Dollar, Silver Dollar Cactus, Silver Dollar Prickly Pear, Dinner Plate Cactus, Sweet Purple Cactus, Opuntia robusta is a shrubby or tree-like cactus with branched stems consisting of flattened blue-green to blue-grey stem segments with areoles that bear tufts of numerous glochids and sharp spines. Yellow flowers appear in late spring and summer at the edges of the upper stem segments. Fruits are fleshy, barrel-shaped, pink or purple.