Opuntia leucotricha

Opuntia leucotricha DC. (1828)

🌵 Author(s)	Augustin Pyramus de Candolle
🌵 Published in	Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. 17: 119 (1828)

Etymology

Greek leukos ‘white’ + Greek thrix (stem trich-) ‘hair’. For the “bristly to hair-like” white spines (De Candolle: “aculeis […] setaceo-capillaceis inermibus albis patentibus”).

The Spanish name for the fruit of this species, tuna durasnilla blanca ‘white peach pricklypear’ (Griffiths & Hare, The Tuna as Food for Man: 56. 1907), refers to the white to light yellow color of the fruit.