| 🌵 Author(s) | Marc A. Baker | 🌵 Published in | Madroño 66(3): 93 (2019) |
| 🌵 Basionym | Opuntia rosea (1828) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Augustin Pyramus de Candolle | 🌵 Basionym published in | Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 3: 471 (1828) |
Latin rŏsĕus ‘rose-like’. For the growth form. Not for the flower color, as Eggli & Newton (Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names. 2004) and Crook & Mottram (in Bradleya 20: 61. 2002) claim. Even though the flowers are often “rose-colored” (Anderson, The Cactus Family: 212. 2001), De Candolle described them as “flesh-colored” (“flos incarnatus”) and the general appearance of the plant as “erect [and] rose-like” (“O. rosea […] erecta rosea”; compare the descriptions of Opuntia cylindrica [= Austrocylindropuntia cylindrica] and Opuntia imbricata [= Cylindropuntia imbricata subsp. imbricata] on the same page). See Crook & Mottram (in Bradleya 20: 61. 2002) for a photograph of “a good modern representation of this species [Opuntia rosea]” with flesh-colored flowers.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Jun 28). Cylindropuntia imbricata subsp. rosea. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/cylindropuntia-imbricata-subsp-rosea