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beach Texas pricklypear
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beach Texas pricklypear

Opuntia bentonii

Opuntia bentonii was proposed by some botanists to be a synonym of Opuntia stricta. However, O. bentonii, which grows in Texas, is separate and distinct from O. stricta. O. bentonii was clearly described by Griffiths in 1911. Along with O. stricta,O. bentonii was one of the pest pears of Australia in the early Twentieth Century.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 809288.