Elephantear pricklypear
Opuntia tuna (L.) Mill.
- light
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- water
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- tall
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- wide
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Cactaceae
Formerly Cactus dillenii, Cactus tuna, Opuntia dillenii, Opuntia maritima, 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.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Succulent shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico, S. JamaicaKew's checklist, not yet checked
Not known yet: light, height, spread, water, flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (4)
- Chinese
- 金武扇仙人掌, 牙买加仙人掌, 金武扇
- Portuguese
- Ataiba
- Finnish
- tunaopuntia
- Slovak
- opuncia karibská
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
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.0
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