Native records: 6 botanical areas
Aruba, Colombia, Netherlands Antilles, 3 more areas
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Opuntia caracassana
Common Prickly Pear
Distribution is shown as WGSRPD Level 3 areas. It does not imply the species occurs throughout an entire area.
Climatically similar areas are not areas where the plant can grow.
Distribution areas
Aruba
- ArubaNative
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
- Netherlands AntillesNative
Colombia
- ColombiaNative
Curaçao
- Netherlands AntillesNative
El Salvador
- El SalvadorIntroduced
Trinidad and Tobago
- Trinidad-TobagoNative
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
- VenezuelaNative
- Venezuelan AntillesNative
Other species in Opuntia
- Opuntia bonaerensis
- Opuntia bonplandii
- Opuntia bravoana
- Opuntia caboensis
- Opuntia camanchica
- Opuntia canterae
- Opuntia cespitosaeastern prickly-pear cactus
- Opuntia chaffeyi
- Opuntia chiangiana
- Opuntia chisosensisChisos Mountain Prickly Pear
- Opuntia chloroticaDollar-joint Prickly-pear
- Opuntia clarkiorumEl Rosario Prickly Pear
NativeIntroducedUncertain