Salmonopuntia salmiana
Calyx 6(2): 41 (1999), as 'salmonana'
Family
Cactaceae
Genus
Species
Salmonopuntia salmiana
Author
(Pfeiff.) P.V.Heath
Chinese genus
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Chinese name
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Accepted
DescriptionEdit description
Description
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Flowers
2 to 3.5 cm broad, scattered along the stem. Buds pinkish or even scarlet. Petals obovate, pale yellow to white, sometimes tinged with pink; stamens and style short. Stigma-lobes yellowish green
Spines
Sometimes wanting, usually several, to 1.5 cm long or less, white.
Stem
Branches (segments) often weak, cylindrical, terete, up to 25 cm long and 1.5 cm in diameter or less, deep blue-green often purplish, not tuberculate.
Fruits
Sterile, clavate, scarlet, spineless or nearly so. The fruits have the capacity to develop roots and shoots, behaving like seedlings in this way.
Areoles
Small, bearing wool, yellow glochids and spines