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Opuntia rufida
Blind Prickly Pear
| Family |
| Cactaceae |
| Genus |
| Opuntia |
| Species |
| rufida |
| Category |
| Perennials |
| USDA Hardiness Zone |
| 8b-10 |
| Height |
| 120 cm |
| Spread |
| 120 cm |
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Description and Growing Information
Flowering Period
| Habitat |
| Texas to Mexico |
| Leaf Description |
| Reduced to a spine or often without spines, if present the spines are 12 mm or less, with many spines per areole, areoles resembling reddish-brown hairy tufts, areoles 3.5-5 cm apart. |
| Flower Description |
| Flowers: inner tepals yellow throughout, aging apricot to orange, obovate-apiculate, 25-38 mm; filaments whitish; anthers yellow; style green; stigma lobes dark green. |
| Fruit Description |
| Fruits red with green flesh, obovate, 20-35 mm long and 15-23 mm wide, fleshy, short pubescent, spineless; umbilicus 5-7 mm deep; areoles 36-52. |
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