Drooping Prickly Pear
Opuntia monacantha Haw.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 5.0 m
- wide
- —
Cactaceae
Also called Thin-leaved Prickly Pear, Cochineal Prickly Pear, Cochineal, Barbary fig, Common pricklypear
Formerly Cactus indicus, Cactus monacanthos, Cactus urumbeba, Opuntia deflexa, and 4 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
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
- Succulent shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- E. & S. Brazil to UruguayKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 5.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Portuguese
- Urumbeba, Arumbeva, Arumbeba-de-fruto-comprido
- Chinese
- 單刺仙人掌, 玉芙蓉, 云南仙人掌
- Chinese (China)
- 单刺仙人掌
- Japanese
- タンシウチワ（単刺団扇）, ツウゾクウチワ（通俗団扇）
- Afrikaans
- Suurturksvy, luisiesturksvy
- Korean
- 왕선인장
- Spanish
- Monducuru
- Catalan
- Figuera de moro variegada
- Finnish
- kiilto-opuntia
- French
- Oponce à une épine
- Slovak
- opuncia jednotŕňová
- Turkish
- Meksika Kaktüsü
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, 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 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- 3D model: Opuntia monacantha (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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