Blind Prickly Pear
Common in lower elevations of western/southwestern Texas and much of Mexico's Chihuahuan Desert, this is the only native prickly pear in the region without long spines. Instead, brown hair-like glochids grow in the areoles, which if touched, can be quite painful and difficult to remove. This one was photographed just north and below the Chisos Mountains in Big Bend National Park in Brewster County, Texas.
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Angiosperms, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Cactaceae, Caryophyllales, Chihuahuan Desert, Core eudicots, Eudicots, Opuntia, Opuntia rufida, Opuntieae, Opuntioideae, Plantae, Texas, arid, blind pear, blind prickly pear, blind pricklypear, botany, cacti, cactus, cow blinder, desert, dicot, flora, green, heat, hurt, nature, nopal, nopal rojizo, pad, pain, painful, perennial, plant, poke, prickle, prickly, prickly pear, pricklypear, sharp, shrub, southwest, spike, spiky, spring, subshrub, succulent, thorn, thorny, west, western, wild, Chiricahua, Chiricahua Desert, Chiricahuan, desert, Big Bend National Park, National Park, NP, BBNP, Chiricahuan Desert
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- Opuntieae
