Opuntia chlorotica

Opuntia chlorotica Engelm. & J.M.Bigelow (1856)

🌵 Author(s)	George Engelmann John Milton Bigelow
🌵 Published in	Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 3: 291 (1856)

Etymology

Latin chlōrōtĭcus ‘pale green’. For the pale stem segments (Engelmann & Bigelow: “articulis […] pallidis”). Engelmann later (Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 3(7): 422. 1896) described the color as “pale glaucous”.