Bunny Ears Cactus
Opuntia microdasys (Lehm.) Pfeiff.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Little
- tall
- 76 cm
- wide
- 1.4 m
Cactaceae
Also called Yellow Bunny Ears, Cow-Blinder, Dwarf Cactus, Garden-Cactus, Teddy Bear Cactus
Formerly Cactus microdasys, Opuntia macrocalyx, Opuntia pulvinata
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.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Succulent subshrub or shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Desert or dry shrublandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 61 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 1.2 m to 1.5 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Nopal cegador, Nopal Cegador
- root
- tlatoca-nochtli, yellow bunny-ears
- Russian
- Опунция мелковолосистая
- Croatian
- Mišje uši
- Portuguese
- Orelha-de-coelho
- Chinese (China)
- 黄毛掌
- Japanese
- キンエボシ（金烏帽子）
- Danish
- guldfigenkaktus
- Polish
- opuncja drobnokolczasta
- Finnish
- jänönopuntia
- Slovak
- opuncia drobnotŕňová
- Turkish
- Tavşan Kulağı
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
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Opuntia microdasys (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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