Cylindropuntia tesajo
(Engelm.) F.M.Knuth (1936)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Frederik Marcus Knuth |
🌵 Basionym | Opuntia tesajo (1896) |
🌵 Basionym author(s) | George Engelmann | 🌵 Basionym published in | Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 3(7): 448 (1896) |
Spanish tasajo ‘jerky, dried meat’, apparently the vernacular name of the species. Weber (in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) 4(1): 165. 1898): “The Mexicans generally refer to Opuntia leptocaulis [= Cylindropuntia leptocaulis] and O. Kleiniæ DC [= Cylindropuntia kleiniae] or related species (Op. Tasajo Engelm.) by the name Tasajillo. — The word Tasajillo, diminutive of the Spanish Tasajo, means strip of dry meat (carne secca).”
van der Meer, Maarten H.J. (2022, October 13). Cylindropuntia tesajo. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/cylindropuntia-tesajo