Opuntia anacantha

Speg.

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Summary

Opuntia anacantha is a species belonging to the family Cactaceae, native to northern Argentina and Bolivia.

A cactus. It is a small shrub. It keeps growing from year to year. The flowers are yellow. The fruit are bright red.

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The inner flesh is eaten when unripe, and the ripe fruit is also consumed.

The inner flesh is eaten when unripe and the fruit when ripe.

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It is a subtropical plant. In Argentina it grows from sea level to 1,000 m above sea level.

Argentina, Paraguay, South America*,

Not in The Plant List.

Opuntia retrorsa Speg.and others

Ninpuomowasu, Sok elpayheyak, Urumbaba do pantanal

Arenas, P. and Scarpa, G. F., 2006, Edible wild plants of the Chorote Indians, Gran Chaco, Argentina. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. Vol. 153 (1): pp 73-85
Montani, M. C. & Scarpa, G. F., 2016, Recursos vegetales y prácticas alimentarias entre indígenas tapiete del noreste de la provincia de Salta, Argentina. Darwiniana, nueva serie vol.4 no.1 San Isidro jul. 2016 (As Opuntia anacantha var. retrorsa)
Polini, G., et al, Useful and edible plants of Paraguay Region of Chaco. p 40 (As Opuntia anacantha var. retrorsa)
www.colecionandofrutas.org (As Opuntia retrorsa)