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ok i guess no one cares i thought it was pretty cool. guess I'm a plant geek.
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I just don't know much about opuntias. it is always cool to find a unique plant and rescue it from development. did you dig it up and take it home?
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oh hell yeah. still havent found another one, maybe it's a mutated Opuntia humifusa. i donno.
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Unsu...
Hmmm, that's a poser. Swink, in his book Plants of the Chicago Region, records occurrences of O. humifusa and O. macrorhiza (the latter only in Grundy and Kane counties). Possibly the macrorhiza? Google for some images and see how they compare to your plant. -
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Oh this was found up on the Cumberland plateau here in Nashville,very cedary and dry, lots of wild yucca and scrub,cedars thick dry hardy moss covers where the lime doesn't poke through ,in the spring and winter it is a rock marsh ,in the summer its like a desert, sorry i haven't changed my location since i was in chi town,ha ha.
this specimen is very dwarfed, the lobes are only about 1 inch across, it has all long spines,like 9 or 10 per clump,and none of the evil spines that come out in your skin. i'm still stumped myself. -
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Unsu...
Hmmmm (some more),
(goes to the states search portion of the PLANTS database [ plants.usda.gov/checklist.html ])
Only O. humifusa shows up there (for TN).
None of those wicked tiny spines (glochids) in any of the areoles?
Excellent key here: www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx
-um, more so supposing you have fruit, that is.
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new pics in album
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ok this has to be somehow a form of o. fragilis, the only thing anywhere close to this specimen, found wild here in tennessee, with average temperatures far less that where else it is found. always the last to fall the tough opuntia genus suprises me once again, maybe a hangover from when this used to be a desert slope,maybe someone dropped a piece? maybe someone had one and a bird ate the little fruit and shat it out,hell who knows maybe i am just too observant to have found it in the first place. youd thing there should be a larger clump somewhere close,nothing yet.
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