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Opuntia tehuacana, the Tehuacán prickly pear, is a shrubby prickly pear cactus from dry parts of Puebla and Oaxaca in Mexico. Grow it like other prickly pears: full sun, sharp drainage, and very little water.
Opuntia tehuacana, commonly known as the Tehuacán prickly pear, is a species of prickly pear cactus in the family Cactaceae. It was described by Mexican botanists Salvador Arias Montez and Susana Gama López in 1997. The species was named for the town of Tehuacán, Mexico, which is near the center of the species range.
Opuntia tehuacana is endemic to Mexico, specifically Puebla and Oaxaca, where it grows primarily in the dry shrub-land zone, but is also seen growing in the desert zone too. It has a solid range, with no known fragmented populations.
There are no current, common uses for Opuntia tehuacana, although it may be used locally as a vegetable in Mexican cuisine or as an ornamental cactus.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Opuntia tehuacana 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.
