Dose anyone else grow Opuntia aurea?
I grow one magenta pink colored clone and one yellow yellow colored clone.
I also have two that seem to be hybrids, they are not as large. One has rose pink flowers, the other never blooms is extremely slow growing (for an Opuntia) and gets very thick, small pads.
Here is the large magenta clone.
I end up trimming it by 1/3 every year to keep it in check.
Here is the large yellow one.
The pads have a hint of gray coloration.
This is the smaller one with rose pink flowers.
This last is the one with small thick pads.
On the mother plant I have see the pads as thick as one inch.
I have never seen the mother plant in bloom.
The owner of it told me it will not bloom for him either.
