Opuntia, Evergreen Cactacea export to northern Europe
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Opuntia, Evergreen Cactacea export to northern Europe.
Evergreen Cactacea, the Opuntia is composed of segments, oval, flat, fleshy, called blades.
From late spring to summer the plant produces numerous flowers, arranged on the edges of the blades. The flowers the fruits are oval, fleshy, thorny, green. They become purple red when ripe. The whole plant is edible.
Opuntia, Evergreen Cactacea is also called Ficus Indica. Opuntia Ficus Indica is a large trunk-forming segmented cactus which may grow to 5–7 metres (16–23 ft) with a crown of possibly 3 metres in diameter and a trunk diameter of 1 metre. Cladodes (large pads) are green to blue-green, bearing few spines up to 2.5 centimetres or may be spineless. Prickly pears typically grow with flat, rounded cladodes (also called platyclades). They contain large, smooth, fixed spines and small, hairlike prickles called glochids that readily adhere to skin or hair, then detach from the plant.
Opuntia, Evergreen Cactacea export to northern Europe.
The flowers are typically large, axillary, solitary, bisexual, and epiperigynous. As a result, they are with a perianth consisting of distinct, spirally arranged tepals and a hypanthium. The stamens are numerous and in spiral or whorled clusters. And the gynoecium has numerous inferior ovaries per carpel. Placentation is parietal, and the fruit is a berry with arillate seeds. Prickly pear species can vary greatly in habit; most are shrubs, but some, such as Opuntia echios of the Galápagos, are trees.
Furthermore, opuntia ficus-indica thrives in regions with mild winters having a prolonged dry spell followed by hot summers with occasional rain and relatively low humidity. A mean annual rainfall of 350–500 millimetres (14–20 in) provides good growth rates. In addition, O. ficus-indica proliferates in various soils ranging from sub-acid to sub-alkaline. The clay content should not exceed 15-20%. The shallow root system enables the plant to grow in shallow, loose soils, such as on mountain slopes. Opuntia spreads into large clonal colonies. And this contributes to the fact, that people consider it a noxious weed in some places.
