Characteristics
Dicots
                    Opuntia cochenillifera (L.)Mill.  
                COCHINEAL CACTUS
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                                    Not Native
                                    UPL (NWPL)
                    
                
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                    Citation
OPUNTIA COCHENILLIFERA (Linnaeus) Miller, Gard. Dict., ed. 8.  1768.
                Cactus cochenillifer Linnaeus 1753.
                JAMAICA: Without data (lectotype: Dillenius, Hort. Eltham.  2: pl. 297(383).  1732).   Lectotypified by R. A. Howard & Touw, Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles)  54: 68.  1982.
                Species Distribution Map
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