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Prickly Pear
Note: From: "Prickly Pear", by Brisbane City Council, n.d., (weeds.brisbane.qld.gov.au/weeds/prickly-pear)
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- Threats to Nature"During the early 1900s prickly pear, advancing more than a thousand hectares a day, blanketed more than 20 million hectares of Queensland and northern New South Wales in a horror of spines ... "
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" Invasive species in these genera are Weeds of National Significance. These invasive cacti impact on Australia’s environmental, agricultural and aesthetic values ... " - Prickly PearCITEMAKER > Automatically Generate Citations > Website or DOI
"An upright or spreading fleshy shrub usually growing only 50-100 cm tall. Its stems are much-branched and consist of a series of flattened fleshy segments ... " - Opuntia strictaCITEMAKER > Automatically Generate Citations > Website or DOI
"Common Prickly Pear is an erect spreading shrub usually 0.5-1 m tall (occasionally to 2 m) and 0.5-5 m across. The stem segments at the base often thicken and form a trunk ... "
