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Opuntia macrocentra
A purple to mint green pad cactus from the desert Southwest U.S. When it is drought stressed it turns more red while new pads are mint green. 2" flowers in April and May.
This is differentiated from a Santa Rita Prickly Pear by the long spines at the top of the pad.
Spotted on Jun 2, 2010
Submitted on Sep 12, 2011
5 Comments
Thanks Goody for your help Identifying this cactus!
Really beautiful though!
never bad! I just need to research it a little. The guy who sold it to me called it a silver-dollar opunti, but common names are so unreliable.
ah, sorry my bad, you already described it as an Opuntia sp.... That was my best guess too...
Opuntia?