Cylindropuntia ×viridiflora
(Britton & Rose) F.M.Knuth (1936)
Etymology
| 🌵 Author(s) | Frederik Marcus Knuth |
| 🌵 Basionym | Opuntia ×viridiflora (1919) |
| 🌵 Basionym author(s) | Joseph Nelson RoseNathaniel Lord Britton | 🌵 Basionym published in | Cactaceae (Britton & Rose) 1: 55 (1919) |
| 🌵 Hybrid parents | Cylindropuntia imbricataCylindropuntia whipplei |
Latin vĭrĭdis ‘green’ + Latin –flōrus ‘flowered’. For the flower color, described by Britton & Rose as “green, tinged with red”.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Oct 10). Cylindropuntia ×viridiflora. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/cylindropuntia-viridiflora