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Cumulopuntia is a genus of small, mostly cushion-forming cacti from the Andes of South America, often confused with and sometimes merged into Opuntia. It is a poorly defined genus, so the care notes here apply to the typical cushion-forming members grown in collections.
Cumulopuntia is a genus of cactus (family Cactaceae). This is a poorly defined genus, with constant change to what species fall under it and whether it should even be a separate genus from Opuntia, which it is often interchanged with. It was defined by Friedrich Ritter in 1980 by redefining multiple species in Tephrocactus and Opuntia. Still more work needs to be done to circumscribe Cumulopuntia as it stands.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cumulopuntia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
