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Opuntia cochenillifera

cochineal cactus

12

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1937

First collected

2007

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Opuntia cochenillifera, most mentions first.

  1. 2025

  2. 2019

    Hawaiian naturalized vascular plants checklist (February 2019 update)

    Imada, C. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  3. 2013

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1994–2013: Index

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  4. 2000

    Survey of invasive or potentially invasive cultivated plants in Hawai‘i

    Staples, G.W., D. Herbst & C.T. Imada · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

5 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.

Two centuries of collecting

1930s2000s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1937 by Neal, M.C.; Judd, A.F.; Bryan Jr., E.H. (Oʻahu).

From the collection

Opuntia cochenillifera, 685301Opuntia cochenillifera, 12034Opuntia cochenillifera, 659763Opuntia cochenillifera, 497651Opuntia cochenillifera, 685302Opuntia cochenillifera, 46490Opuntia cochenillifera, 771535Opuntia cochenillifera, 513577Opuntia cochenillifera, 12259Opuntia cochenillifera, 511552Opuntia cochenillifera, 709185Opuntia cochenillifera, 748358