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Opuntia bentonii
Also called Erect Pricklypear, Prickle, Sour Prickle, Australian Pest Pear, Pest Pear Of Australia, Sour Prickly Pear, Common Prickly Pear
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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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Opuntia bentonii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
