Austrocylindropuntia vestita (Salm-Dyck) Backeb. is a plant in the Cactaceae family, order Caryophyllales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

Photo of Austrocylindropuntia vestita (Salm-Dyck) Backeb. (Austrocylindropuntia vestita (Salm-Dyck) Backeb.)
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Austrocylindropuntia vestita (Salm-Dyck) Backeb.

Austrocylindropuntia vestita (Salm-Dyck) Backeb.

Austrocylindropuntia vestita is a white-haired columnar cactus native to high altitude grasslands of northwest Argentina and Bolivia.

Family
Genus
Austrocylindropuntia
Order
Caryophyllales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Austrocylindropuntia vestita (Salm-Dyck) Backeb.

Austrocylindropuntia vestita (Salm-Dyck) Backeb. has common names including old man opuntia, cotton pole, and cotton coral cactus. It is a species belonging to the genus Austrocylindropuntia. This cactus grows on rocky soils in high altitude grasslands of northwest Argentina and Bolivia. It is a slender, columnar green cactus covered in white hairs.

Photo: (c) Francisco Cornell, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Francisco Cornell · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Caryophyllales Cactaceae Austrocylindropuntia

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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