Opuntia rioplatensis Font
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About the genus · Opuntia
Opuntia, commonly called the prickly pear cactus, is a genus of flowering plants in the cactus family Cactaceae, many known for their flavorful fruit and showy flowers. Between 8,000 and 9,000 years ago, the Opuntia prickly pear cactus was domesticated in central Mexico. Cacti are native to the Americas, and are well adapted to arid climates; however, they are still vulnerable to alterations in precipitation and temperature driven by climate change. More on Wikipedia ›
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Opuntia", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Grouped as a cactus or succulent, listed under the genus Opuntia in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent shrub”.
How this section is made
Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.
Group. Listed under the genus Opuntia in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent shrub”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.
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Similar habitat climate Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the nearest habitat climates are read from the climate they give.
Other Opuntia 93 in the reference
Opuntia aciculata Chenille prickly-pear Photo: CC BY-SA, Juan Cruzado Cortés
Opuntia × aequatorialis Ecuadorian Pricklypear Photo: CC BY, Jacob Saucier
Opuntia × alta Texas Plains Pricklypear Photo: CC BY-SA, Turner Brockman
Opuntia anahuacensis Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Jamie Kingscott
Opuntia arechavaletae Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Diogo Luiz
Opuntia arenaria Cactaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, user:sadambio
Opuntia atrispina Border Prickly-pear Photo: CC BY-SA, Turner Brockman
Opuntia auberi Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, WildLife Mx
Opuntia aurantiaca Jointed pricklypear Photo: CC BY, Corey O'Brien
Opuntia aurea Golden Prickly-pear Photo: CC BY, Andrew Dudley
Opuntia aureispina Golden-spined prickly-pear Photo: CC0, Robert Creech
Opuntia austrina Devil's-Tongue Photo: CC0, author not stated all 94 ›Names & registers
Also known as Opuntia elata var. obovata; Opuntia elata subsp. rioplatensis. (WCVP, RBG Kew)
The record
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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Opuntia rioplatensis Font (plant_name_id 2997356), read from Kew's names filegbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.occurrences not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedwcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04climate not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked, and the habitat climate is read only from themwikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 77142404-1, POWO 77142404-1wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22inat.photos.wild not askedinat.photos.cultivated not askedgbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedcommons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshotEvery source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence.