Archive image from page 123 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture . Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofame03bail Year: 1906 1148 OPUNTIA crowded, with fine, gray wool and very numerous golden yellow bristles of unequal length ; spines 3-6, rarely none, on old stems occasionally 40 or more, unequal, angular, golden yellow, deflexed, usually 1 i
Archive image from page 123 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture . Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofame03bail Year: 1906 1148 OPUNTIA crowded, with fine, gray wool and very numerous golden yellow bristles of unequal length ; spines 3-6, rarely none, on old stems occasionally 40 or more, unequal, angular, golden yellow, deflexed, usually 1 in. or less long: fls. yellow, 2-3 in. in diam: fr. deep purple, moder- U'loh 1546. Hedge of Opuntia Tuna. tlv. edihle, IV2 in in diam., broadly obovate to serds comparatively small, sometimes sterile. IT. pycnacantha, Engelm. An upright, moderately plaint, ft. high: joints oval to orbicular, oi-i;i~.j,,M;illy somewhat pointed at the ends, 4-8 in. long, sometimes pubescent, armed with a densely inter- woven covering of mostly dellexed spines : areol» crowded, approximately Kin. apart, with dark brown wool and numerous long, yellow bristles; spines 3-7, on old stems 20 or more, straw-colored to ashy, mostly less than 1 in. long: Us. greenish yellow, 2-3 in. broad: fr. obovate, 114 in. in diam. and covered with numerous spines and bristles. Lower Calif. 18. £ngelmaiinii, Salm. Pig. 1547. An erect to semi- prostiale. profusely branching, coarse plant. 'J-r. ft. hi;;li. forming large, impenetrable thickets, usually with a short, more or less terete, woody trunk, with grayish bark which becomes unarmed with age: joints broadly obovate to orbicular, pale to bluish green, very variable in size, in large specimens 12-14 in. long ami nearly as wide, moderately thick : areolaa remote, about 1 in. apart, with gray wool and large, rigid, gray to yel- low, unequal bristles; spines mostly 2-t, sometimes 1-3 small additional ones, very variable, homy, variously colo
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