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Opuntia fragilis (brittle prickly pear)

I had not idea these showed up in the Gulf Islands, but Plants of Coastal British Columbia confirms it. I figured this was a run away garden plant in zone denial.


Altitude: 5m (16 feet)
Camera: Nikon D2x
Date: Saturday, May 16th, 2009 at 9:47 AM
Exposure: 1/125 sec at f6.3
ISO: 100 asa
Lens: 105mm f/2.8D AF Micro-Nikkor at 105mm
(equivalent field of view of a 157.5mm lens on a 35mm camera)
Location:
View Towards Flora Island Grassy Bluffs Brittle Prickly-Pear Cactus On Bluff Field Chickweed With Dead Wood Yellow Monkeyflowers View Towards Flora Island Grassy Bluffs Brittle Prickly-Pear Cactus On Bluff Field Chickweed With Dead Wood Yellow Monkeyflowers View Towards Flora Island Grassy Bluffs Brittle Prickly-Pear Cactus On Bluff Field Chickweed With Dead Wood Eagles On Eagle Island View Towards Flora Island Grassy Bluffs Glassy Ocean Surface Vanilla Leaf Claira And Helen Digging Fossils Taking Cable Ferry To Denman Waiting For Ferry To Hornby Crossing To Denman Pano Denman Farmers Market Pano Glass Sculptures In Driftwood Us on Big Tree Falls into Gorge Mark under Rock Pilings With Bird Boxes Eagles On Eagle Island View Towards Flora Island Glassy Ocean Surface Vanilla Leaf Claira And Helen Digging Fossils Taking Cable Ferry To Denman Waiting For Ferry To Hornby Stotan Falls Fence at Rathtrevor Top Falls at Englishman River Us on Big Tree Falls into Gorge Mark under Rock Pilings With Bird Boxes Eagles On Eagle Island View Towards Flora Island Harlequin Duck At Beach Common Murre View Towards Flora Island Grassy Bluffs Brittle Prickly-Pear Cactus On Bluff Helen And I On Cliff Field Chickweed With Dead Wood Yellow Monkeyflowers View Towards Flora Island Grassy Bluffs Brittle Prickly-Pear Cactus On Bluff Field Chickweed With Dead Wood Yellow Monkeyflowers Eagles On Eagle Island Island Lighthouse View Towards Flora Island Grassy Bluffs Field Chickweed With Dead Wood Yellow Monkeyflowers Claira And Helen Digging Fossils Waiting For Ferry To Hornby Eagles On Eagle Island View Towards Flora Island Grassy Bluffs Glassy Ocean Surface Claira And Helen Digging Fossils Waiting For Ferry To Hornby Fence at Rathtrevor Top Falls at Englishman River Us on Big Tree Falls into Gorge Eagles On Eagle Island View Towards Flora Island Glassy Ocean Surface Goats On The Roof At Coombs Live Sand Dollar In Palm California Quail On Fence Post Bullfrog In Hamilton Marsh On Approach To Mudge Stephen And His Sunset Mud Flats at Sunset Fence at Rathtrevor Top Falls at Englishman River Us on Big Tree Falls into Gorge High Falls Eagles On Eagle Island View Towards Flora Island Bastion in Nanaimo View Towards Flora Island Grassy Bluffs Brittle Prickly-Pear Cactus On Bluff Field Chickweed With Dead Wood Yellow Monkeyflowers View Towards Flora Island Grassy Bluffs Field Chickweed With Dead Wood Yellow Monkeyflowers Eagles On Eagle Island Island Lighthouse Brittle Prickly-Pear Cactus On Bluff Claira And Helen Digging Fossils Waiting For Ferry To Hornby Denman Farmers Market Pano Glass Sculptures In Driftwood Glaze Samples In Workshop Hornby Island Across Lambert Channel Motion Blur Flight View Towards Flora Island Brittle Prickly-Pear Cactus On Bluff ATMBehind Glass Door Boot Point Pano Fruit At Farm Stand Spring Bay Pano Pilings With Bird Boxes Eagles On Eagle Island Island Lighthouse Antiques And Services Brittle Prickly-Pear Cactus On Bluff Vanilla Leaf Claira And Helen Digging Fossils Taking Cable Ferry To Denman Waiting For Ferry To Hornby Crossing To Denman Pano Denman Farmers Market Pano Pilings With Bird Boxes Eagles On Eagle Island View Towards Flora Island Harlequin Duck At Beach What Happens When You Take AGirl To The Beach Antiques And Services Vanilla Leaf Bonapartes Gull Claira Both Eyes Focused Chipping Sparrow Claira And Nara Making Monster Faces Boardwalk In Meadow Stotan Falls Pilings With Bird Boxes Eagles On Eagle Island View Towards Flora Island Harlequin Duck At Beach Two Tiger Lilies Cape Mudge Lighthouse Clouds Parting Over Glassy Water Common Murre Arbutus Growing In Gorge Boat At Landing Boardwalk In Meadow Stotan Falls Front of Condo Us on Big Tree Falls into Gorge Mark under Rock Pilings With Bird Boxes Eagles On Eagle Island View Towards Flora Island Totem In Front Of U'Mista Centre New National Park Sign Yellow Iris With Ants On Approach To Mudge Reflecting Pond Four Otters Sandheads Lighthouse Ferry Terminal Dive Site Right Castle With Irises Mud Flats at Sunset Waiting For Lifts To Open New National Park Sign Yellow Iris With Ants On Approach To Mudge View From Second Chief Mud Flats at Sunset Waiting For Lifts To Open View From Lunch Tarn In Front Of Anniversary Glacier Mark And Mike At Summit Boat At Landing Boardwalk In Meadow New National Park Sign Yellow Iris With Ants Waiting For Lifts To Open Mark And Mike At Summit Boat At Landing Boardwalk In Meadow Rock Margin Front of Condo Fence at Rathtrevor Wharf in Namu Diagonal Falls New National Park Sign Waiting For Lifts To Open Mark And Mike At Summit Boat At Landing Front of Condo Wharf in Namu Immature Bog Cranberry Numa Falls (Veiled) Athabasca Falls Closer Bromley Rock Mount Robson In Fog Boardwalk In Meadow Stotan Falls Us on Big Tree Falls into Gorge Mark under Rock Pilings With Bird Boxes Eagles On Eagle Island View Towards Flora Island Harlequin Duck At Beach Cape Mudge Lighthouse Common Murre Boardwalk In Meadow Stotan Falls Front of Condo Jin and Jesse! Us on Big Tree Falls into Gorge Mark under Rock Pilings With Bird Boxes Eagles On Eagle Island View Towards Flora Island Mark Taking in the View Boat At Landing Boardwalk In Meadow Stotan Falls Front of Condo Us on Big Tree Falls into Gorge Mark under Rock Pilings With Bird Boxes Eagles On Eagle Island View Towards Flora Island Totem In Front Of U'Mista Centre New National Park Sign Yellow Iris With Ants On Approach To Mudge Reflecting Pond Four Otters Sandheads Lighthouse Ferry Terminal Dive Site Right Castle With Irises Mud Flats at Sunset Waiting For Lifts To Open New National Park Sign Yellow Iris With Ants On Approach To Mudge View From Second Chief Mud Flats at Sunset Waiting For Lifts To Open View From Lunch Tarn In Front Of Anniversary Glacier Mark And Mike At Summit Boat At Landing Boardwalk In Meadow New National Park Sign Yellow Iris With Ants Waiting For Lifts To Open Mark And Mike At Summit Boat At Landing Boardwalk In Meadow Rock Margin Front of Condo Fence at Rathtrevor Wharf in Namu Diagonal Falls New National Park Sign Waiting For Lifts To Open Mark And Mike At Summit Boat At Landing Front of Condo Wharf in Namu Immature Bog Cranberry Numa Falls (Veiled) Athabasca Falls Closer Bromley Rock Mount Robson In Fog
Map
Region: North America, Canada, British Columbia
Scientific Name: species related to Opuntia fragilis (brittle prickly pear)
Tag: cactus
Larger image: 1999 x 1328
Raw image: 4288 x 2848

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