Opuntia pailana
Opuntia pailana is a species of the genus Opuntia in the family Cactaceae. The name pailana comes from the sierra de la Paila in the state of Coahuila Mexico where it was discovered.
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| Opuntia pailana in a garden centre | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Cactaceae |
| Genus: | Opuntia |
| Species: | O. pailana |
| Binomial name | |
| Opuntia pailana Weing. | |
Description
The first description was published by Wilhelm Weingart in 1929 in the book Monatsschrift der Deutschen Kakteen-Gesellschaft. Band 1, Nummer 9, 1929, S. 167–169.
As most of the species of the genus Opuntia, Opuntia pailana is a shruby plant with cladodes (leaves racket-shaped) up to one meter high.
The cladods are in color blue-green or when getting older green-yellow, 10 to 14 centimeters long and up to 9 centimeters width. The areoles with dark color support grey-yellow glochids, with long white hairs of trichome.
The areols support also thorns 2 to 3 centimeters long with white or light grey color, with some darker strips. Most often, they are three, or six to eight on older plants.
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