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Southeastern Prickly Pear

Southeastern Prickly Pear

Opuntia mesacantha

Opuntia mesacantha Raf. 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 TEN, LOUOO, MRY, SCA, SPASP, EUROPE, NCAOO, ALAOO, FLAOO, NORTHERNAMERICA, FLA, NORTHEASTERN_USA; New Jersey to SE. U.S.A..1

POWO records the plant context as succulent subshrub, temperate.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 mesacantha Raf.". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed: 2026-06-10. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:136799-1 ↩
  2. GBIF Secretariat. "Opuntia mesacantha". GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Accessed: 2026-06-10. https://www.gbif.org/species/7283048 ↩
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Native Habitat

New Jersey to SE. U.S.A.

Automatically collected source range/note: TEN, LOU_OO, MRY, SCA, SPA_SP, EUROPE, NCA_OO, ALA_OO, FLA_OO, NORTHERN_AMERICA, FLA, NORTHEASTERN_USA; New Jersey to SE. U.S.A..