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Opuntia rufida
Blind Cactus at Bruce, ACT
Identification history
| Opuntia rufida | 2 Dec 2019 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Opuntia elata | 23 Nov 2019 | AlisonMilton |
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Author's notes
Not sure whether to call this one plant or multiple. Growing right down the slope.
2 comments
MichaelMulvaney wrote:
3 Dec 2019
Although it keys out as Opuntia elate on Plantnet - the lack of spines and finely and regularly spaced pits and teh reddish colour of teh hairs suggests blind cactus, so named as the fine easily separated hairs can blind cattle. This looks like a planted specimen - what were they thinking?
AlisonMilton wrote:
3 Dec 2019
I'd say it was planted also. Not the first time I've seen similar plants deliberately planted outside of a suburban yard. I dug up all the ones I found along the verge of Kingsford-Smith Drive in Hawker some years ago.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.076520-35.242802
- Altitude 604.6m
- Places Bruce, ACT
Species information
- Not Sensitive
- Exotic
- Noxious or High Risk Weed or Pest
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 25 Aug 2019 02:16 PM Recorded on
- AlisonMilton Recorded by
Additional information
- 30cm to 1 metre Plant height
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