My Beautiful Opuntia
This is Opuntia aciculata. Our Arizona home has a large stand of it that we planted in a dry wash in 1974. It gets no additional water and yet it blooms beautifully every January and February. It's sometimes called the Chenille Prickly Pear or Old Man's Whiskers. This is one cacti that you want to handle very carefully! The glochids are wicked.
