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Opuntia rzedowskii
Opuntia rzedowskii, Rzedowski's prickly pear, is a species of prickly pear cactus native to dry shrubland and grassland in central Mexico. It is grown as a sun-loving, drought-tolerant succulent in well-drained soil.
Opuntia rzedowskii, also known as Rzedowski's prickly pear, is a species of prickly pear cactus in the family Cactaceae.
Opuntia rzedowskii was described by Léia Scheinvar in 1976. However, many older descriptions were accounted for the same species, but under a different taxonomic name in the early 1900s.
It is native to central Mexico, specifically throughout parts of Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, State Of Mexico, Michoacán, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, and Zacatecas, with most online observations being recorded in the outskirts of Mexico City.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Opuntia rzedowskii 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.
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.
