Opuntia erinacea

Opuntia erinacea, the Mojave prickly pear, is a plant that was previously treated as a variety of Opuntia polyacantha,^[1] in the family Cactaceae, that is a distributed throughout the Mojave and into the southern Great Basin deserts in the United States.

Mojave prickly pear
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Cactaceae
Genus:	Opuntia
Species:	O. erinacea
Binomial name
Opuntia erinacea Engelm. & J.M.Bigelow

Opuntia erinacea is proposed by A.D. Stock to be an allopolyploid that resulted from hybridization between Opuntia diploursina and Opuntia basilaris.;^[2] although ties with other varieties of Opuntia polyacantha are also strongly evident.