Erect Prickly Pear
நாகதாளி
Opuntia stricta (Haw.) Haw.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 2.0 m
- wide
- —
Cactaceae
Also called Erect Prickly-Pear, Erect pricklypear, Erect Pricklypear
Formerly Cactus strictus, Opuntia airampo, Opuntia bartramii, Opuntia inermis, and 8 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 shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Desert or dry shrublandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. U.S.A. to E. & S. MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 2.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, orangeRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (6)
- Chinese
- 仙人掌, 无刺团扇, 缩刺仙人掌
- Afrikaans
- Suurturksvy
- Spanish
- Nopal Estricto
- Portuguese
- palma-de-espinho
- Simplified Chinese
- 缩刺仙人掌
- Tamil
- நாகதாளி
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Opuntia stricta (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.