Opuntia, nopales or paddle cactus, Nopalea cochenillifera.

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Opuntia, nopales or paddle cactus, Nopalea cochenillifera (Spineless cochineal fig, Cactus cochinillifer) with cochineal beetles. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants, Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefly by her late brother, British botanist Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835).

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Size: 4637px × 6428px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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