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Opuntia dillenii

Scientific Name
Opuntia dillenii
Family Name
Cactaceae
Common Names
Prickly pear, slipper thorn
Local Names
Phanimanasa, naghana. (Bangladesh), Pathok (Sri Lanka)
Description
A large, densely branched bush, about 1.5m high, stems flattened into cladodes, eadisection of the stem 17-22cm long, 7.5-13cm broad, obovate, flat, thick, green orgreyish-green with large, yellowish areoles, each provided with I-S long spines andglochids; spines 0.5-2.5cm long, yellow or lighter, bright, sharp, usually somewhatcurved; glochidia numerous and yellowish; flowers regular, bisexual, large, about7cm across, solitary from the areoles on the edges of the flat shoots; perianth rotate,the outer segments ovate, acute, rounded with membranous margins, the innersegments obovate, rounded, inucronate and the innermost ones 5cm long, 2cm broad,obovate-spathulate; stamens numerous of unequal 1er scarcely reaching half thelength of the inner perianth segments; ovary inferior, shoot-like, 5cm long, obconicalwith areoles and glochidia, unilocular with the ovules on parietal placentas, style stout,about 2.2cm long, exceeding the stamens, stigmas 5-8, erect; fruit a pyriform, reddish-purple berry, 6cm long, 3cm broad, depressed at apex bearing tufts of glochidia. seeds5.5cm across, ridged.Flowers almost throughout the year, especially during months ofdrought. (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Expectorant, purgative, whooping cough, cough, asthma, gonorrhea, dandruff(Bangladesh)
Gonorrhea, cough, suppuration, ear ache, whooping cough, poultices, escharotic,refrigerant, inflammation (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Sri Lanka - Naula, Kanneliya, Meegahak, Pinna, Pattipola, Ganewatta
Remarks
Opuntia dillenii (GRIN)

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