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Golden Prickly-pear

Golden Prickly-pear

Opuntia aurea

Opuntia aurea E.M.Baxter is treated as an accepted taxon in Plants of the World Online.1

The current source-backed classification places it in Cactaceae within Opuntia.12

Its recorded native range/source remark is SOUTHWESTERNUSA, UTAOO, ARI, ARIOO, UTA, NORTHERNAMERICA; S. Utah to N. Arizona.1

POWO records the plant context as tree, desert or dry shrubland.1

This is a source-populated draft intended for later Kaktus Doktoru editorial rewriting; care advice and morphology should be reviewed before publication.

References

  1. Plants of the World Online. "Opuntia aurea E.M.Baxter". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed: 2026-06-10. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:281609-2 ↩
  2. GBIF Secretariat. "Opuntia aurea". GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Accessed: 2026-06-10. https://www.gbif.org/species/5384056 ↩
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Native Habitat

S. Utah to N. Arizona

Automatically collected source range/note: SOUTHWESTERN_USA, UTA_OO, ARI, ARI_OO, UTA, NORTHERN_AMERICA; S. Utah to N. Arizona.