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Opuntias meaning
plural of opuntia
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Fruits of other opuntias are also eaten, generally under the same name, tuna.
Morphology Ferocactus species, a cactoid, in its native Arizona habitat The 1,500 to 1,800 species of cacti mostly fall into one of two groups of "core cacti": opuntias (subfamily Opuntioideae ) and "cactoids" (subfamily Cactoideae).
Most cacti—opuntias and cactoids—specialize in surviving in hot and dry environments (i.e. they are xerophytes ), but the first ancestors of modern cacti were already adapted to periods of intermittent drought.