Exhibit Item 96
Opuntia chlorotica
Dollarjoint or Pancake prickly pear
Illustrator: © 2010 Daniela Siroky
Pen and Ink
Arizona Cactaceae and Intermountain Flora
Plants are large and can be shrubby but are usually treelike with a single trunk that can reach a height of 6-7’. Some specimens have 1- 6 spines per aerole with glochids, others have only glochids.
Exhibit Item 97
Opuntia basilaris var. basilaris
Beavertail prickly pear
Illustrator: © 2010 Daniela Siroky
Pen and Ink
Arizona Cactaceae and Intermountain Flora
The blue-gray pads are typically spineless but with numerous fine barbed hairs called glochids. The flowers are commonly pink to rose. It blooms from spring to early summer.