Cylindropuntia fulgida

Cylindropuntia fulgida (Engelm.) F.M.Knuth (1936)

🌵 Author(s)	Frederik Marcus Knuth
🌵 Basionym	Opuntia fulgida (1856)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	George Engelmann

Etymology

Latin fulgĭdus ‘shining, brightly colored’. For the spines, described by Engelmann as “hiding the whole plant with their lustrous sheaths”. Not for “the vivid coloration of the flowers” (Genaust, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen. 3. Auflage. 1996).