Taxon: Opuntia engelmannii Salm-Dyck ex Engelm.

Species on the following lists:

• CITES Appendix II
  
• Check conservation status and distribution in NatureServe Explorer database

See also subordinate taxa:

• Opuntia engelmannii var. cuija (no accessions)
• Opuntia engelmannii var. engelmannii (no accessions)
• Opuntia engelmannii var. flavispina (no accessions)
• Opuntia engelmannii var. flexospina (no accessions)
• Opuntia engelmannii var. lindheimeri (1 accessions)
• Opuntia engelmannii var. linguiformis (no accessions)

Common names:

• cactus-apple   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• cowtongue cactus   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• cowtongue cactus   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English   [Opuntia engelmannii var. linguiformis]
  
• cowtongue prickly-pear   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• cowtongue prickly-pear   (Source: F NAmer ) – English   [Opuntia engelmannii var. linguiformis]
  
• desert prickly-pear   (Source: Fla Entomol 84:484.) – English
  
• discus prickly-pear   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• Engelmann's prickly-pear   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• Engelmann's prickly-pear   (Source: F CalifJep ) – English   [Opuntia engelmannii var. engelmannii]
  
• few-spine marble-fruit prickly-pear   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• Lindheimer prickly-pear   (Source: AH 505 [as O. lindheimeri]) – English   [Opuntia engelmannii var. lindheimeri]
  
• nopal prickly-pear   (Source: F Tex [as O. lindheimeri]) – English   [Opuntia engelmannii var. lindheimeri]
  
• small round-leaf prickly-pear   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 [as O. lindheimeri]) – English   [Opuntia engelmannii var. lindheimeri]
  
• Texas prickly-pear   (Source: F Tex [as O. lindheimeri]) – English   [Opuntia engelmannii var. lindheimeri]
  
• tuna   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• klein rondeblaarturksvy   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 [as O. lindheimeri]) – Afrikaans   [Opuntia engelmannii var. lindheimeri]
  
• cacanapo   (Source: F Tex [as O. lindheimeri]) – Spanish   [Opuntia engelmannii var. lindheimeri]
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Fla Entomol 84:484. 2001)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Oklahoma
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Louisiana [s.w.]
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California [s.], Nevada [s.], Utah
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Queretaro

• naturalized elsewhere

• also cultivated

References:

• Anderson, E. F. 2001. The cactus family.
• CITES. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendices I, II and III (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Irish, M. 2001. The ornamental prickly pear industry in the southwestern United States. Florida Entomol. 84:484.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Parfitt, B. D. & D. J. Pinkava. 1988. Nomenclatural and systematic reassessment of Opuntia engelmannii and O. lindheimeri (Cactaceae). Madroño 35:342–349.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Opuntia engelmannii.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Opuntia engelmannii.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Opuntia engelmannii.

Synonyms:

• Opuntia flexospina Griffiths [≡ Opuntia engelmannii var. flexospina]
  
• Opuntia lindheimeri Engelm. [≡ Opuntia engelmannii var. lindheimeri]
  
• Opuntia linguiformis Griffiths [≡ Opuntia engelmannii var. linguiformis]
  
• "Opuntia microcarpa Engelm., nom. inval." [= Opuntia engelmannii var. engelmannii]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Opuntia phaeacantha var. flavispina L. D. Benson [≡ Opuntia engelmannii var. flavispina]
  

Check other web resources for Opuntia engelmannii Salm-Dyck ex Engelm.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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