Opuntia

Pinta Rita

A very special cultivar of the ‘Santa Rita Prickly Pear’. The differences are as follows: intensified purple tinting of the turquoise under-color of the plant’s pads; much longer season flowering (from spring through fall); and new growth is bright red! What was already the favorite cactus subject of artists, has now become brighter and more colorful year round! Hardy to mid teens. Can grow to be about 3 feet tall and spread up to 6’ or more. **(Only one other nursery grows this-under a trade-marked name that sounds like the first part of the word “tubacco.”)