Perennials, Tropicals > Opuntia > Opuntia schottii > Opuntia schottii var. schottii
Opuntia schottii
var. schottii
Origin: Texas, United States of America.
| Family |
| Cactaceae |
| Genus |
| Opuntia |
| Species |
| schottii |
| Category |
| Perennials, Tropicals |
| Variety |
| schottii |
| Height |
| 7-10 cm |
| Spread |
| 1-3 m |
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Description and Growing Information
Flowering Period
| General Description |
| Low forming mats or clumps with large terminal green joints. |
| Cultivation |
| Sandy soils. |
| Shape |
| Spreading or divergent. |
| Habitat |
| Desert valleys and plains in open areas or under shrubs and trees at an altitude of 300-1,200 m. |
| Leaf Description |
| Spines are long and generally on the upper areoles, brownish or yellowish in colour, 6-12 per areole, spreading horizontally and straight, 2.5-5 cm in length and 1-1.5 mm in width. |
| Flower Description |
| Yellow flowers, with yellow sepaloids, anthers and fillaments, 5 cm in diameter. |
| Fruit Description |
| Fleshy fruit, spineless, cup-shaped, yellow in colour and atop a short stalk, 4-5.5 x 1.2-4 cm. |
| Notable Specimens |
| Chihuahuan Dessert, Texas, United States of America. Rio Grande Plain, Texas, United States of America. |
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