Beavertail Pricklypear
Opuntia basilaris Engelm. & J.M.Bigelow
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 24 cm
- wide
- —
Cactaceae
Also called Beavertail Cactus, Beavertail Prickly Pear, Beaver Tail Prickly Pear, Beavertail Prickly-pear, Beavertail pricklypear
Formerly Opuntia brachyclada, Opuntia humistrata, Opuntia intricata, Opuntia longiareolata, and 2 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Desert or dry shrublandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SW. U.S.A. to Mexico (Baja California Norte, Sonora)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 8 cm to 41 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- Pink, magentaRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (7)
- Spanish
- Nopal del castor, Nopal del Castor
- Russian
- Опунция низовая
- Japanese
- ソウセイウチワ（叢生団扇）, ゲッカウチワ（月下団扇）, 円紅扇
- root
- manal, OPBA2
- Hungarian
- hódfarkú fügekaktusz
- Chinese (China)
- 海狸鼠尾仙人掌, 海狸团扇
- Chinese
- 褐毛掌
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Opuntia basilaris (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.