Species profile—Opuntia stricta
Classification
Plantae (plants) → Equisetopsida (land plants) → Cactaceae → Opuntia stricta
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Plantae (plants)
- Class
- Equisetopsida (land plants)
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Scientific name
- Opuntia stricta (Haw.) Haw.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 19352
- Alternate name(s)
- common prickly pear
spiny pest pear
prickly pear
smooth pest pear. spiny pest pear
Gayndah pear
erect prickly pear
common pest pear
Araluen pear - Biosecurity Act 2014 (BIO) status
- Restricted Matter
- Conservation significant
- No
- Confidential
- No
- Endemicity
- Introduced
- Pest status
- Environmental Weed
Other resources
The Australasian Virtual Herbarium (AVH) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=19352
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.