Santa Rita Prickly Pear
Also known as the purple prickly pear, this incredibly beautiful Mexican Opuntia cactus develops fantastic purple pads that perfectly compliment the bright yellow (sometimes red) flowers. Native to Northern Mexico from Baja California to the Chihuahuan Desert, its American range extends only into Pima County in Southern Arizona where these were found in peak bloom and photographed just outside of the park borders of the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
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- ©2015
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Ajo, Ajo Range, Angiosperms, Arizona, Cactaceae, Caryophyllales, Core eudicots, Eudicots, HIghway 85, O. gosseliniana, O. gosseliniana var. duraznilla, O. gosseliniana var. santa-rita, OPCNM, Opuntia, Opuntia chlorotica, Opuntia chlorotica var. gosseliniana, Opuntia gosseliniana, Opuntia macrocentra var. macrocentra, Opuntia santa rita var. violacea, Opuntia santa-rita, Opuntia violacea, Opuntia violacea var. castetteri, Opuntia violacea var. gosseliniana, Opuntia violacea var. macrocentra, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Pima County, Plantae, Santa rita prickly pear, Sonoran Desert, arid, blue blade, botany, cacti, cactus, desert, dicot, dollar cactus, flora, green, heat, hurt, nature, pain, painful, perennial, plant, poke, prickle, prickly, prickly-pear, pricklypear, purple, purple prickly pear, sharp, shrub, southwest, spike, spiky, spring, succulent, thorn, thorny, violet, violet prickly pear, west, western, wild, yellow
- Contained in galleries
- Opuntieae
