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Prickly pear prickly pear eastern prickly pear (Top) Area in Queensland, Australia, covered with prickly pear cactus (Opuntia stricta), which had expanded rapidly after being introduced in 1926. (Bottom) The same area three years later (1929) after the cactus moth (Cactoblastis cactorum) was introduced as a biological control agent for the cactus.
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Ripe fruits of a prickly pear cactus (Opuntia), Arizona.
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Engelmann prickly pear (Opuntia engelmannii)
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Eastern prickly pear, or devil's tongue (Opuntia humifusa).
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(Top) Area in Queensland, Australia, covered with prickly pear cactus (Opuntia...
The Alan Fletcher Research Station, Department of Lands, Queensland
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