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Cylindropuntia imbricata lloydii (Cholla; tree cholla; walkingstick cholla)

Synonyms: Cylindropuntia lloydii (homotypic); Opuntia imbricata var. lloydii (homotypic); Opuntia lloydii (homotypic)
Language: Spanish

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [1]  The plant has numerous minutely barbed glochids (hairs) that are easily dislodged when the plant is touched and they then become stuck to the skin where they are difficult to see and remove. They can cause considerable discomfort;
Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Usage [1]  The fruit is chopped into small pieces, boiled and then the fibre and seed is filtered out. The resulting liquid is used as a mordant for dyes; The thorns have been used as a sewing material and for tattooing; The dried stems have been used as candles and torches; The following notes are for O. ficus indica. They almost certainly also apply to this species; A gum is obtained from the stem. It is used as a masticatory or mixed with oil to make candles; The juice of the boiled stem segments is very sticky. It is added to plaster, whitewash etc to make it adhere better to walls;
Height [1]  9.84 feet (3 m)
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Carlsbad Caverns National Park II 15448 New Mexico, United States
Jornada Biosphere Reserve Ib 30913 New Mexico, United States
White Sands National Monument III 139922 New Mexico, United States

Predators

Cahela ponderosella (Cahela Moth)[2]
Dactylopius tomentosus (Devil's rope pear scale)[3]
Diaspis echinocacti (cactus scale)[4]
Dipodomys spectabilis (banner-tailed kangaroo rat)[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 5Dipodomys spectabilis, Troy L. Best, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 311, pp. 1-10 (1988)
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0