Photo of Indian Fig (Opuntia ficus-indica) uploaded by skopjecollection

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Location: Mesa, AZ.
Date: 2016-04-06
Location: Baja California
Date: 2018-04-27
Location: Menton, France
Date: 2015-11-19
Cactus pads and fruit

Date: 2023-05-27
Red flower variety

Date: 2023-05-27
Red flower variety, full plant

Date: 2023-05-27
Yellow flower variety full view

Date: 2022-09-01

Date: 2022-09-07
Location: Ponta do Pargo - Madeira
Date: 2023-04-17
Location: Baja California
Date: 2012-05-31
Location: Menton, France
Date: 2015-11-19
Location: Baja California
Date: 2021-07-07
Vestigial leaves on new growth
Uploaded by sedumzz
Location: Menton, France
Date: 2016-05-30

Date: 2022-09-07
Young clones from fallen pads
Location: Orto Botanico di Cagliari - Sardinia
Location: Botanical Garden La Concepcion - Malaga
Date: 2015-03-25
Location: Cyprus
Date: 2010-12-13
Location: Hortus Camera Lapidea
Date: 2023-04-11
Location: Hortus Camera Lapidea
Date: 2023-04-11
Location: Ponta do Garajau - Madeira
Date: 2023-04-21
Location: Ponta do Garajau - Madeira
Date: 2023-04-21
Location: Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona
Date: 2019-03-21
Location: Athens (Greece)
Date: 2022-05-23
Location: Athens (Greece)
Location: Botanical Garden La Concepcion - Malaga
Date: 2015-03-25
Location: Botanical Garden La Concepcion - Malaga
Date: 2015-03-25
Location: Botanical Garden La Concepcion - Malaga
Date: 2015-03-25
Location: Otok Locrum (Dubrovnik - Croatia)
Date: 2019-09-10
Location: Canoga Park, California
Date: 2007-06-25

Date: 2019-04-20
Nice
Location: my neighborhood
Date: 2015-06-21
YES!!!  That IS a minivan next to the plant!
Location: public landscaping in a parking lot area 
Date: 2011-10-03
just an amazing,healthy, happy speciment
Location: public parking lot
Date: 2011-10-03
beautiful fruit and good example of the pads
Location: public parking lot
Date: 2011-10-03
close up of the fruit...such a lovely, yummy color

Date: 2016-11-24
Location: Secunderabad, India
Date: 2008-05-25
Image by J M Garg;  GFDL via wikimedia commons.
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Date: 2012-08-25 
Thick woody branch
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Date: 2012-08-25 
\"Paddles\"

Date: 2022-09-07
Location: Mesa, AZ.
Date: 2016-04-06
Location: Athens (Greece)
Location: Athens (Greece)
Location: Cyprus
Date: 2010-12-12
Location: Canoga Park, California
Date: 2007-11-04
Location: 98108
Date: 2013-07-11
Location: my neighborhood
Date: 2015-06-21
plant had  just gotten its fruit but they weren't ripe yet
Location: my neighborhood
Date: 2015-07-27
This is a piece of fruit from that plant the size of a minivan.
Location: my neighborhood
Date: 2015-07-26
demonstration of the size of the fruit sitting in my hand! It's r
Location: landscaping in public parking lot
Date: 2011-10-03
just a really gorgeous plant
Location: my neighborhood
Date: 2015-09-11
new pads emerging and fruit ripening
Location: my neighborhood
Date: 2015-09-11
such pretty color and texture on the new pads that were forming
Location: my neighborhood
Date: 2015-09-05
sorry for the glare but I enjoy this plant in that its fruit is y
Location: Missouri Botanical Garden (Mobot) in St Louis
Date: 2016-06-18
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Date: 2012-08-25 
Massive plant I see in the neighborhood during my morning walk.
Location: Crete - Rethymno
Date: 2022-06-02
Invasive species throuhout the Middleterranean.
Location: Ponta do Garajau - Madeira
Date: 2023-04-21
Location: Ponta do Garajau - Madeira
Date: 2023-04-21
Location: Algeria
credit: PhR61
Location: Mesa, AZ.
Date: 2016-04-04

Date: c. 1809
illustration from 'Figures of beautiful, useful, and uncommon pla

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