Pan India Bouquets

Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Mill.

Family : Cactaceae
(Cactus Family)
Family (Hindi name) : NAG PHANI FAMILY / CACTUS FAMILY (नागफणी फैमिली / कैक्टस फैमिली)
Family (as per The APG System III) : Cactaceae
Synonym(s) : 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
Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Mill.
Common name : Fig opuntia
Vernacular name : Sagor-phena (Assamese)
Habit : Shrub
Habitat : Hot dry valleys, rocks; 600-2900 m
Comments / notes : Introduced species. Grown primarily as a fruit crop, and also for the vegetable nopales and other uses. Cacti are good crops for dry areas because they convert water into biomass efficiently.
Flower, Fruit : May-June
Distribution :
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
Native : Mexico
Exotic/Native : Exotic
World Distribution : Pantropical
Literature : Uniyal B.P., Sharma J.R., Choudhery U., Singh D.K. (2007). Flowering Plants of Uttarakhand: A Checklist. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh: 137
Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Navendu Page, Deepak Kumar (2020). Pan India Bouquets. http://flora-peninsula-indica.ces.iisc.ac.in/pan/plants.php?name=Opuntia ficus-indica. Downloaded on 7 December 2023.

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