coastal cholla Cactaceae Cylindropuntia prolifera

Leaf:Reduced to a spine, to 1 inch pale brown-yellow spines, with a shining sheath, arranged in obvious areoles with 6-12 stiff spines per areole.
Flower:Purple-red, less than one inch April to June.
Fruit:Generally sterile, pear-shaped to nearly round, without spines, fleshy and green, 1 1/2 inch long, often producing flowers the following year which will result in clustered fruits.
Twig:Segmented, each segment blue-green or yellow-green, to 8 inches long and 1 1/2inches in diameter.
Bark:Brown-black, becoming rough and scaly.
Form:A multibranched shrub to 8 feet.

leaf fruit twig bark form map

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