Flower and stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, near Boorowa, NSW

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, near Boorowa, NSW

Spiny stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, near Boorowa, NSW

Common Name

A Prickly-pear

Family

Cactaceae

Notes

Introduced shrub to about 1.5m tall. Stems, flower bases, and fruit spiny. Succulent stems (segments). Leafless. Flowers yellow fading to orange, with many petals, borne singly on the edges of the stem segments. Ripe fruit red. Opuntia sp. sensu I.Telford (1984) in NSW. A weed of national significance. Noxious weed in all of NSW. Declared plant in SA.

PlantNET description (as Opuntia sp. sensu I.Telford (1984)):  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Opuntia~sp.+sensu+I.Telford+%281984%29