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{{Inc| Opuntia brasiliensis, Haw. A large, tree-like plant reaching a height of 15-18 ft., numerously branched, with a thick, roundish crown and an upright trunk, 4-6 in. diam., and bearing numerous spines 1 in. or less in length: joints of two kinds, cylindrical, unarticulate, elongate ones and others which are shorter and much flattened and which arise as offshoots from the former; the latter lf.-like, thin; 2-6 in. long, oblong, rarely oblong-lanceolate or orbicular, dark green, margin angular, sometimes irregular: areoles with short gray wool and numerous brown bristles; spines usually 1, sometimes 1-3 small additional ones, 1-2½ in. long, mostly from the marginal areoles, white, with brownish tips: fls. numerous, citron-yellow, 2 in. wide: fr. globose or ellipsoidal, yellow, about 1½ in. diam/ Brazil and southward.—One of the species most frequent in cult. }} ==Cultivation== ===Propagation=== ===Pests and diseases=== ==Varieties== Synonyms: ''Brasiliopuntia argentina'' ([[August Grisebach|Griseb.]]) [[Alwin Berger|A.Berger]] ''Brasiliopuntia bahiensis'' ([[Nathaniel Lord Britton|Britton]] & [[Joseph Nelson Rose|Rose]]) [[A.Berger.]] ''Brasiliopuntia brasiliensis ssp. subacarpa'' ? ''Brasiliopuntia neoargentina'' [[Curt Backeberg|Backeb.]] ''Brasiliopuntia schulzii'' ([[A.Cast.]] & [[Michel G. Lelong|Lelong]]) [[Curt Backeberg|Backeb.]] ''Brasiliopuntia subacarpa'' [[Carlos Toledo Rizzini|Rizzini]] & [[A.Mattos]] ''Cactus brasiliensis'' [[Carl Ludwig Willdenow|Willd.]] ''Opuntia argentina'' [[August Grisebach|Griseb.]] ''Opuntia bahiensis'' [[Nathaniel Lord Britton|Britton]] & [[Joseph Nelson Rose|Rose]] ''Opuntia brasiliensis'' ([[Carl Ludwig Willdenow|Willd.]]) [[Adrian Hardy Haworth|Haw.]] ''Opuntia neoargentina'' ([[Curt Backeberg|Backeb.]]) [[G.D.Rowley]] ''Opuntia schulzii'' [[A.Cast.]] & [[Michel G. Lelong|Lelong]] ==Gallery== <gallery perrow=5> Image:OpuntiaBrasiliensisTop.jpg|Top of Opuntia brasiliensis Image:OpuntiaBrasiliensisTrunk.jpg|The trunk Image:Upload.png| photo 1 Image:Upload.png| photo 2 Image:Upload.png| photo 3 </gallery> ==References== <references/> *[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963    ==External links== *{{wplink}} {{stub}} __NOTOC__

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