Native to southern AZ and Mexico. Different than O. microdasys, O. rufida, O. santa-rita in that it has larger pads, sprawling growth hab...Read Moreit, turns purple in the wintertime and has a shiny epidermis. Some of the plants in Arizona are very purplish and even more so when stressed. It has all yellow flowers. Opuntiads.com has a good write-up on it. It's origins may be a mixture of a few of those previously mentioned species along with O. chlorotica in the mix. Anderson (2001) and Wikipedia both list lubrica as a synonym of O. microdasys. But Anderson only went down to the species level and not the variety level with O. microdasys.
Native to southern AZ and Mexico. Different than O. microdasys, O. rufida, O. santa-rita in that it has larger pads, sprawling growth hab...Read More