EPPO Global Database

• EPPO code: OPUFI
• Preferred name: Opuntia ficus-indica
• Authority: (Linnaeus) Miller

Mexico. Introduced into western Mediterranean, Central, Eastern and Southern Africa, North (locally) and South America. Planted as an ornamental and hedging plant, frequently naturalized. Several related species have also been introduced from America into other continents, and there is some confusion within this group of introduced Opuntia species (and possibly also hybridization)

Invasive in Corse (FR)