Opuntia molinensis cv. Red Glochids
Opuntia molinensis cv. Red Glochids
Family
Cactaceae
Genus
Species
Opuntia molinensis cv. Red Glochids
Author
hort.
Chinese genus
仙人掌属
Chinese name
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Accepted
DescriptionEdit description
Description
Areoles
Stem Segments
Green to grey-green as they ages, globose to ovoid, up to 2.5 cm long and wide (but up to 4 cm long or more in cultivation), fragile, spineless with dense glochids. The tubercles are somehow raised but not sharply delimited.
Flowers
Dirty white or very pale pink a little hyaline with a green centre and green filaments. Pericarp is comparatively small and has areoles furnished with bristle-like spines as strong as the one on the young shoots.
Glochids
This is a very ornamental clone with bright Orange-reddish glochids and white felt.
Spines
Spineless.
Fruits
Dry, thin walled.Small clumping segmented succulent, In cultivation grows as a small erect segment chains. In habitat the plants stay smaller because the uppermost segments are detachable and drop easily.
Areoles
Very ornamental with bright yellow-brown glochids and white felt.