Opuntia pubescens
A small, sprawling prickly pear with slender, easily detached segments, recorded mostly across the dry highlands of central and southern Mexico and scattered south to the Andes of Peru and Bolivia. It wants full sun, a warm summer with rain and a cool, dry winter, which is easy to give in a sunny greenhouse or a bright windowsill with a dry winter rest.
Where it grows wild
Grows in dry scrub, grassland edges and rocky slopes of seasonally dry highlands, often among shrubs or on open stony ground. This is inferred from the recorded sites and the genus; species-specific habitat notes were not checked.
Recorded from near sea level to about 2,470 m, with a median near 1,400 m; most Mexican records sit on the central plateau and Oaxacan valleys at 1,500–2,000 m.
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