- Family: Cactaceae Juss.
- Genus: Opuntia Mill.
Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Mill.
- Genus: Opuntia Mill.
This species is accepted, and its native range is Mexico. It is used to treat unspecified medicinal disorders, as an ornamental plant and for food.
[FTEA]
Cactaceae, R. Hunt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1968
- Habit
- Shrubby or arborescent, up to 4(–5) m. tall, often with a cylindrical trunk.
- Spines
- Joints elliptic to narrowly obovate, flattened, often 30–40 cm. long, 15–20 cm. broad, 1–1.5 cm. thick, greyish-green; glochids yellow, deciduous; spines usually none, sometimes 1 or more, up to 1.5 cm. long, bristle-like.
- Leaves
- Leaves subulate, 3–4 mm. long, early deciduous.
- Flowers
- Flowers 5–8 cm. in diameter; perianth spreading, yellow or orange, longer than the style and stamens.
- Ovary
- Ovary cylindrical, 3.5–5 cm. long, with many areoles, the upper bearing bristles up to 1.5 cm. long.
- Fruits
- Fruit ellipsoidal or obovoid, 5–9 cm. long, 3–6 cm. in diameter, variable in colour, with edible pulp.
- Habitat
- Roadsides and by rivers; grasslands on pumice dust
- Distribution
- K3 K6 presumably native to America but not known wild therewidely cultivated and naturalized around the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, in Africa and Australia. Cultivated in Niarobi (Dec. 1948, Bally 6558 in C.M. 13559!) and reported as very common and spreading rapidly around Naivasha (Lucas 278)
[CPLC]
Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co
- Distribution
- Cultivada en Colombia; Alt. 1300 - 2600 m.; Andes.
- Habit
- Arbusto, arbolito
[UPB]
The Useful Plants of Boyacá project
- Ecology
- Alt. 1300 - 2600 m.
- Distribution
- Cultivated in Colombia.
- Habit
- Shrub.
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[UPB]
- Ornamentals
- Live plant (in situ) - Ornamental (Granados-Tochoy et al. 2007).
- Food
- Infructescences - Edible fruit (Granados-Tochoy et al. 2007).
- Materials
- Materials (State of the World's Plants 2016).
- Unspecified Materials Chemicals
- Materials (State of the World's Plants 2016).
- Unspecified Medicinal Disorders
- Medicinal (Instituto Humboldt 2014).
Native to:
Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest
Introduced into:
Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Assam, Baleares, Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, California, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Corse, Cuba, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is., El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Florida, France, Free State, Galápagos, Gambia, Greece, Guatemala, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iraq, Italy, Kenya, Korea, Kriti, KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Madeira, Morocco, New Mexico, New South Wales, Northern Provinces, Palestine, Paraguay, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, South Australia, Spain, St.Helena, Sudan, Tibet, Trinidad-Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Victoria, Western Sahara, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zaïre
- Cactus chinensis Roxb.
- Cactus ficus Thunb.
- Cactus ficus-indica L.
- Cactus opuntia Guss.
- Opuntia apurimacensis (F.Ritter) R.Crook & Mottram
- Opuntia arcei Cárdenas
- Opuntia castillae Griffiths
- Opuntia chinensis (Roxb.) K.Koch
- Opuntia cordobensis Speg.
- Opuntia ficus-indica var. elongata Schelle
- Opuntia ficus-indica f. reticulata Backeb.
- Opuntia ficus-indica var. saboten Makino
- Opuntia fusicaulis Griffiths
- Opuntia incarnadilla Griffiths
- Opuntia joconostle F.A.C.Weber ex Diguet
- Opuntia leiascheinvariana Martínez-Gonz. & Gallegos
- Opuntia leucostata J.Forbes
- Opuntia megacantha Salm-Dyck
- Opuntia megacantha var. tenuispina Salm-Dyck
- Opuntia mexicana Pfeiff.
- Opuntia obovata Griffiths
- Opuntia paraguayensis K.Schum.
- Opuntia robusta var. megacantha (Salm-Dyck) Schelle
- Opuntia tribuloides Griffiths
- Opuntia tuna-blanca Speg.
- Opuntia undosa Griffiths
- Opuntia undulata Griffiths
- Platyopuntia apurimacensis F.Ritter
- Platyopuntia cordobensis (Speg.) F.Ritter
- Platyopuntia ficus-indica (Mill.) F.Ritter
- Spanish
- Penca, higo chumbo, chumbera, nopal, tuna.
Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Mill. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
14481.000 | ||||
Spain | K000100469 | |||
K000100963 | ||||
Malta | K000100466 | |||
Italy | K000100465 | |||
Algeria | K000100482 | |||
De Winter [0], South Africa | K000100555 | |||
Kitching [0], USA | K000100631 | |||
Burkill [27] | K000275302 | |||
Bourgeau [669], Spain | K000100467 | |||
Schweinfurth [1693], Eritrea | K000100515 | |||
Schlieben [12506] | K000100965 | |||
Schlieben [12520] | K000100966 | |||
Schlieben [12510] | K000100967 | |||
Schlieben [12507] | K000100968 | |||
Schlieben [12512] | K000100969 | |||
Schlieben [12514] | K000100970 | |||
Schlieben [12502] | K000100971 | |||
Schlieben [12508] | K000100972 | |||
Schlieben [12505] | K000100973 | |||
Schlieben [12521] | K000100974 | |||
Schlieben [12503] | K000100975 | |||
Schlieben [12511] | K000100976 | |||
Schlieben [12516] | K000100977 | |||
Schlieben [12509] | K000100978 | |||
Schlieben [12501] | K000100979 | |||
Schlieben [12518] | K000100980 | |||
Schlieben [12519] | K000100981 | |||
Schlieben [12513] | K000100982 | |||
Schlieben [12515] | K000100983 | |||
Phipps [2266], Zimbabwe | K000100535 | |||
Lucas [278], Kenya | K000100520 | |||
Keith [773], Libya | K000100964 | |||
Madsen [50391], Ecuador | K000275257 | |||
Madsen [50053], Ecuador | K000275251 | |||
Madsen [50053], Ecuador | K000275252 | |||
Madsen et al [36827], Ecuador | K000275253 | |||
Madsen et al [36804], Ecuador | K000275255 | |||
Madsen et al [36804], Ecuador | K000275256 | |||
Madsen et al [36827], Ecuador | K000275254 | |||
Howard [18578], Puerto Rico | K000100694 | |||
Vasey [0], USA | K000100630 | |||
Ryding [1247], Eritrea | K000100516 | |||
Glover et al [2375], Kenya | K000100519 | |||
Mavi [1250], Zimbabwe | K000100536 | |||
Simpson, D. N. [1503], Egypt | K000100478 | |||
Simpson, D. N. [4835], Egypt | K000100480 | |||
Gandoger [383], Spain | K000100468 | |||
Rodin [9029], South Africa | K000100556 | |||
Araque [0], Argentina | K000100897 | |||
Arcangeli [0], Italy | K000100464 | |||
Wood, I. J.R. [1580], Yemen | K000100479 | |||
Gillies [0], Argentina | Opuntia cordobensis | K000100895 | ||
Gillies [0], Argentina | Opuntia cordobensis | K000100896 | ||
Shafer [109], Argentina | Opuntia cordobensis | K000100899 | ||
Shafer [21], Argentina | Opuntia cordobensis | K000100900 | ||
Shafer [77], Argentina | Opuntia cordobensis | K000100898 | ||
Mexico | Opuntia megacantha | K000062548 | ||
Mexico | Opuntia megacantha | K000062549 | ||
Hunt, D. | Opuntia paraguayensis | 49733.000 | ||
Pedersen [2846], Argentina | Opuntia paraguayensis | K000100913 |
First published in Gard. Dict. ed. 8: n.º 2 (1768)
Accepted by
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- Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
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