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Opuntia stricta (Spiny pest pear; Sour prickly pear; Pest pear of Australia; Erect prickly pear; Common prickly pear; Common pest pear; Australian pest pear; erect pricklypear; Gayndah pear)

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Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

Opuntia stricta is a species of cactus from southern North America, Central America, the Caribbean, and northern South America. Common names include erect prickly pear and nopal estricto (Spanish). It is an erect or sprawling shrub up to 2 m (6.6 ft) in height, producing lemon yellow flowers in the spring and summer, followed by purplish-red fruits.
View Wikipedia Record: Opuntia stricta

Infraspecies

Opuntia stricta var. dillenii (erect pricklypear)

Invasive Species

View ISSG Record: Opuntia stricta

Attributes

Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Structure [1]  Shrub

Protected Areas

Predators

Providers

Pollinated by 
Apis mellifera (honey bee)[5]
Bombus terrestris (Large Earth Humble-bee)[5]
Oxythyrea funesta[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Achlysiella williamsi[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 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
♦ 3Interaction between ants, extrafloral nectaries and insect herbivores in Neotropical coastal sand dunes: herbivore deterrence by visiting ants increases fruit set in Opuntia stricta (Cactaceae), P. S. OLIVEIRA, V. RICO-GRAY, C. DÍAZ-CASTELAZO and C. CASTILLO-GUEVARA, Functional Ecology 1999 13, 623–631
♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 6Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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