Opuntia macrorhiza
Engelm. (1850)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | George Engelmann | 🌵 Published in | Boston J. Nat. Hist. 6: 206 (1850) |
Greek makrorrhizos ‘with long roots’. For the “large and fleshy tuber, sometimes 2 or 3 inches in diameter” (Engelmann). The epithet is sometimes corrected to macrorrhiza.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Feb 05). Opuntia macrorhiza. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/opuntia-macrorhiza