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	\|species=chlorotica		\|species=chlorotica
			\|common_name=Pancake Prickly Pear
			\|habit=cacti-succulent
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			\|origin=SW United States
			\|lifespan=perennial
			\|exposure=sun
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			'''''Opuntia chlorotica''''' is a species of [[plant]] in the [[Cactaceae]] family. It is a species of [[Opuntia\|prickly pear]] native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Its common names include '''pancake prickly pear''' and '''dollarjoint prickly pear'''. This cactus is bluish-green and manifests a bushy to erect form that may attain a height of two meters or more.<ref>Nathaniel Lord Britton. 1919. p. 160</ref><ref>Jepson Manual Treatment: ''Opuntia chlorotica''. 1993</ref>

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	Opuntia chlorotica, Engelm. Pig. 2600 (adapted from Pacific R. R. Report). A compact, upright, moderately branched plant, from 3-6 ft. high, the trunk and main sts. becoming woody and terete, and densely covered with long straw-colored bristles and spines: joints orbicular, somewhat glaucous, 6-10 in. diam.: areoles crowded, with fine, gray wool and very numerous golden yellow bristles of unequal length; spines 3-6, rarely none, on old sts. occasionally 40 or more, unequal angular, golden yellow, deflexed, usually 1 in. or less long: fls. yellow, 2-3 in. diam.: fr. deep purple, moderately bristly, edible, 1½ in. diam., broadly obovate to globose; seeds comparatively small, sometimes sterile. S. W. U. S.		Opuntia chlorotica, Engelm. Pig. 2600 (adapted from Pacific R. R. Report). A compact, upright, moderately branched plant, from 3-6 ft. high, the trunk and main sts. becoming woody and terete, and densely covered with long straw-colored bristles and spines: joints orbicular, somewhat glaucous, 6-10 in. diam.: areoles crowded, with fine, gray wool and very numerous golden yellow bristles of unequal length; spines 3-6, rarely none, on old sts. occasionally 40 or more, unequal angular, golden yellow, deflexed, usually 1 in. or less long: fls. yellow, 2-3 in. diam.: fr. deep purple, moderately bristly, edible, 1½ in. diam., broadly obovate to globose; seeds comparatively small, sometimes sterile. S. W. U. S.

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Opuntia chlorotica, Engelm. Pig. 2600 (adapted from Pacific R. R. Report). A compact, upright, moderately branched plant, from 3-6 ft. high, the trunk and main sts. becoming woody and terete, and densely covered with long straw-colored bristles and spines: joints orbicular, somewhat glaucous, 6-10 in. diam.: areoles crowded, with fine, gray wool and very numerous golden yellow bristles of unequal length; spines 3-6, rarely none, on old sts. occasionally 40 or more, unequal angular, golden yellow, deflexed, usually 1 in. or less long: fls. yellow, 2-3 in. diam.: fr. deep purple, moderately bristly, edible, 1½ in. diam., broadly obovate to globose; seeds comparatively small, sometimes sterile. S. W. U. S.
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==References==
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963




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Opuntia chlorotica - Revision history

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