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
- Synonym(s)
- Opuntia inermis
- 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
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://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.
