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Opuntia cubensis Britton & Rose

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Opuntia cubensis is known in the flora only on Big Pine Key, Florida.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of North America Vol. 4: 127, 130 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Description

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Shrubs, dense, erect, to 1 m. Stem segments dark green, flattened, elliptic, (4-)10-17.5 × (3-)5-7 cm, moderately tuberculate, making margins appear scalloped, glabrous; areoles 3-5 per diagonal row across midstem segment, elliptic to subcircular, 4-6 × 2.5-3 mm; wool pale tan to white, loose. Spines 2-3(-5) per areole, spreading, yellowish, aging gray-white; major ones straight, stout, slightly flattened, commonly spirally twisted, longest to 25-60 mm. Glochids dense in crescent at adaxial edge of areole, sparser along sides of areole, yellow, turning red to brown, to 5 mm. Flowers: inner tepals yellow throughout, to 30 mm; filaments and anthers pale yellow; style pale greenish yellow; stigma lobes pale cream. Fruits reddish at maturity, obovoid, 40 × 25 mm, fleshy, glabrous; areoles 17-21, bearing few spines to 9 mm. Seeds tan, subcircular, ± 3 mm diam.; girdle to 0.3 mm. 2n = 22 (Puerto Rico).
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of North America Vol. 4: 127, 130 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Distribution

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Fla.; West Indies.
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Flora of North America Vol. 4: 127, 130 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flowering/Fruiting

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Flowering year-round.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of North America Vol. 4: 127, 130 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Habitat

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Brushlands, coastal sands, ocean bluffs, disturbed areas; 0m.
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Flora of North America Vol. 4: 127, 130 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Synonym

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Opuntia antillana Britton & Rose; O. ochrocentra Small ex Britton & Rose
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of North America Vol. 4: 127, 130 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of North America @ eFloras.org
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