USA, Arizona, Pinal, Maricopa County: Grown in cultivation at Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, N 33 deg 27' 33'', W 111 deg 56' 35'', 1200 ft., 366 m; accession number 1980-0274-01-11; originally received as a plant collected by Mark Mittleman 16 August 1980 with Wendy C. Hodgson from Arizona, Pinal County 13.3 miles E. of Florence on the Florence-Kelvin Highway in the vicinity of the given coordinates; originally received as Opuntia versicolor, name changed per Wendy C. Hodgson, 1 October 2013; collector's notes: Gravely, sandy soil, common; associated plants-Larrea, Acacia, Cercidium.
32.980406 -111.173795
452 meters
2464ft
Plant height 3 feet; stems gray-green or olive green; spines black or dark gray; flowers collected in the evening, diameter 47-50 mm, length 49-65 mm, outer perianth dark yellow with a reddish-green mid-stripe and blushed red on side of mid-stripe, inner perianth dark yellow with red streaking; stigma lobe number 5-6, yellow; style cream; filaments magenta.
Flowers.
Cactus Voucher Project. This is sheet I/II and has the flowers and pictures. Sheet II/II is DES00073580 and has the stems and pictures.; Cultivated.; Cultivated or Captive