Scientific Name: Opuntia echios J.T.Howell
Caption: Giant Galapogean Prickly Pear (Opuntia echios echios) on Santa Cruz, Galapagos Islands
Photographer: Dallas Krentzel
Locality: Puerto Ayora, Galapagos, Ecuador (-0.764605, -90.340733)
Notes: Prickly pears cacti are usually small bushy like plants lacking any sort of central trunk, however, in the Galapagos prickly pears have become towering trees with tall central, woody-looking lignized trunks, some of which that I saw personally where at least over 40 feet tall (+12 meters), although the average was more like 12-20 ft (~4-6 meters).
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