From: "P van Rijckevorsel"


From: "P van Rijckevorsel"
In Cacti there is only a single flower encapsulated in each receptacle so
it should be closer to a pome than to a syconium?

Sean Houtman schreef
For most cacti, it is like a pome with nodes on it. In Opuntia fulgida,
the nodes produce at least one new flower bud the following years.
Sean

+ + +
Thanks. And if these flowers then produce fruit this will give a very
interesting infructescense, right?

Very interesting indeed, it is called Chainfruit Cholla for that reason.
www.ibiblio.org/herbmed/pictures/ j-o/opuntia-fulgida-1.jpg
helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/bto/desertecology/ choimag7.htm
www.dbg.org/Involved/ chain_fruit_cholla.html

Sean



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