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Pricklypears
Every rated Opuntia record is fire-resistant — 1 of 4 records, including the genus rated as a group; none is condemned. These counts describe the cited records — 4 records carrying 15 evidence rows from 14 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.
Rated as a group: Prickly pear cactus Opuntia Fire-resistant Consensus 11 sources rate the genus as a
whole. Species evidence never rolls upward into a genus verdict, and genus claims never
override a species record.
› Awaiting evidence
3 species
- Opuntia ficus-indica Awaiting evidence Opuntia ficus-indica
- Chumbera Awaiting evidence Opuntia maxima
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Prickly Pear Cactus* Awaiting evidence Opuntia polyacantha
About pricklypears
Corpus context. Opuntia is the directory's #223 largest of 550 genus groups: 4 records carrying 15 evidence rows from 14 cited sources, recorded as perennial, shrub , hardy across USDA zones 4–9. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.
More about Opuntia: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.