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'''''Opuntia chlorotica''''' is a species of [[plant]] in the [[Cactaceae]] family. It is a species of [[Opuntia|prickly pear]] native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Its common names include '''pancake prickly pear''' and '''dollarjoint prickly pear'''. This cactus is bluish-green and manifests a bushy to erect form that may attain a height of two meters or more.<ref>Nathaniel Lord Britton. 1919. p. 160</ref><ref>Jepson Manual Treatment: ''Opuntia chlorotica''. 1993</ref> {{Inc| Opuntia chlorotica, Engelm. Pig. 2600 (adapted from Pacific R. R. Report). A compact, upright, moderately branched plant, from 3-6 ft. high, the trunk and main sts. becoming woody and terete, and densely covered with long straw-colored bristles and spines: joints orbicular, somewhat glaucous, 6-10 in. diam.: areoles crowded, with fine, gray wool and very numerous golden yellow bristles of unequal length; spines 3-6, rarely none, on old sts. occasionally 40 or more, unequal angular, golden yellow, deflexed, usually 1 in. or less long: fls. yellow, 2-3 in. diam.: fr. deep purple, moderately bristly, edible, 1½ in. diam., broadly obovate to globose; seeds comparatively small, sometimes sterile. S. W. U. S. }} ==Cultivation== ===Propagation=== ===Pests and diseases=== ==Varieties== ==Gallery== <gallery perrow=5> 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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