Taxon: Cylindropuntia fulgida (Engelm.) F. M. Knuth

• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Species on the following lists:

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

Common names:

• boxing-glove cactus   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• boxing-glove cholla   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• brinkadora   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• chain-fruit cholla   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• club cactus   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• jumping cholla   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• smooth chain-fruit cholla   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• Sonoran jumping cholla   (Source: Cact Fam ) – English
  
• roseakaktus   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 [as Opuntia fulgida]) – Afrikaans
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide F NAmer)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide Cact Fam)
  
• Weed   (fide Weeds SAfr 2001, as Opuntia fulgida)
  

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)
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja California, Sinaloa, Sonora

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: South Africa

• 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.
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12. [= Opuntia fulgida Engelm.].
• Hunt, D. et al., eds. 2006. The new cactus lexicon.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Cylindropuntia fulgida.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cylindropuntia fulgida.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Cylindropuntia fulgida.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Opuntia fulgida Engelm. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Cylindropuntia fulgida (Engelm.) F. M. Knuth:

• 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
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• 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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