| Description | An easy to grow oddity of the Cactus world. Fast growing forming a shrubby plant with vestigial leaves. |
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| Pronunciation | (aoss-troh-sil-in-droh-PUN-tee-uh) (sub-you-LAH-tuh) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Cactus |
| Hardiness Zone | 9-11 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average, dry |
| Soil & Site | well drained |
| Growing Media | cactus and succulent mix |
| Flowers | reddish flowers, having grown this plant for over 20 years in a greenhouse it never flowered, could be because we always cut it back and rooted the cuttings to control the size |
| Leaves | vestigial, rounded, fleshy, green |
| Stems | cylindrical stems, long yellow spines 4 or more per group |
| Dimensions | can reach over 12 feet, shrubby cactus |
| Maintenance | the ones in our greenhouse grew very fast and needed to be pruned to size. Branches anywhere a cut is made. |
| Propagation | root sections of stems, cut and let dry for a day or two, support the cutting, roots easily |
| Native Site | Peru and Argentia |
| Misc Facts | syn. Opuntia exaltata |
| Notes & Reference | #15-Cactus Lexicon (Backeberg), #99-The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Succulent Plants (Gordon Rowley), #208- Cacti and their cultivation (Margaret Martin, P.R. Chapman, H.A. Auger) |
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