Opuntia diploursina
A diploid, upright, long-spined prickly pear of the Mojave Desert region, considered a likely parent of Opuntia erinacea and known to hybridise with O. basilaris. Grow it like other cold-desert Opuntia: full sun, very fast drainage, a warm summer and a cold, dry winter.
Where it grows wild
Open desert flats, slopes and washes of the Mojave Desert around Lake Mead and north into southern Nevada and Utah, among creosote and blackbrush scrub on gravelly or rocky soils.
No usable elevations in our records; the Mojave habitat it is known from lies roughly between 400 and 1,500 m, which brings cold winter nights.
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