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Aliens of the Cape Peninsula

A quick guide to aliens recorded as naturalized on the Cape Peninsula

As guides can only do 500 species the list stops in "Solanum" and 80 species are omitted (this is our short list: there are over 800 species known at present).

Cereus jamacaru
Echinopsis spachiana 1
Mission Prickly-pear 2
Opuntia ficus-indica
tree cholla 3
Cylindropuntia imbricata
Drooping Prickly Pear 4
Opuntia monacantha
Rose Cactus 5
Pereskia aculeata

Edited by Tony Rebelo, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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  • 1. (c) hikingsandiego, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by hikingsandiego
  • 2. (c) DavidR.808, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by DavidR.808
  • 3. (c) 2004 Robert Sivinski, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
  • 4. (c) Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 5. (c) George Shepherd, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)

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