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The Opuntia file for opuntia ficus indica shows limited evidence. On opuntia ficus indica, Low-volume and slow-burning vegetation sits versus that opuntia ficus indica row. The facts stay as separate jobs on Opuntia. limited evidence and Low volume and stay split for opuntia ficus indica.
On opuntia ficus indica, Opuntia also carries 2 ecological invasive for opuntia ficus indica.
Use evidence on opuntia ficus indica for opuntia ficus indica. Use related plants on opuntia ficus indica for opuntia ficus indica. Use sourced rows on opuntia ficus indica for opuntia ficus indica. The jumps stay with opuntia ficus indica on Opuntia.
Form
shrub
Mature height
~10 ft
Water need
low
Rated in
California; Turkey
On this lot
1. Fire evidence and conditions
Fire evidence
Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
6 sourced range or established records. This is not an invasive warning.
USDA hardiness
Documented minimum 6b; no upper limit is documented.
3. Legal, ecological, and broader status
Legal-list status
Seed-list status
Reported invasive here
2 ecological invasive reports.
Broader regional context
Federal context
How to read this page
The status above is computed from the cited rows below: independent recommendations can support a fire-resistant result, an avoid row can produce keep-away, and disagreement stays visible as conflict. Placement notes preserve each source’s own scheme rather than translating unlike rules into one scale. This is evidence about a plant, not permission to plant it in every part of the defensible space; Zone 0 remains noncombustible.
Native and introduced range evidence
These are exact U.S. botanical-area records from the cited range source. Native and
introduced describe biogeographic relationship, not fire performance or planting approval.
Doubtful and extinct rows stay visible but do not count as current presence.
The lossless worldwide derivative is retained once in the research corpus; object pages repeat only exact U.S. areas needed by the local lens. The JSON twin carries the same page assertions.
Plant hardiness evidence
These values describe the plant source. Your ZIP zone comes from the separate 2023 USDA
Plant Hardiness Zone Map. Whole-zone values stay whole-zone, and a single unresolved value
is not treated as a tolerance range. Different source boundaries stay separate: overlapping
statements are compared independently, while only ranges with no shared zone are called a conflict.
Source location: PlantCharacteristics record 56835, Temperature, Minimum (°F).
Where its sources say to plant it
Placement rules below use each source's own distances or named zones, tied to its rating.
They are not interchangeable with the directory's current Zone 0 guidance.
Low-volume and slow-burning vegetation for planting on cl…: Table 5: Plants not considered suitable for use to reduce fire hazards [nord-green-brushland-clearing-performance] (mid-scale rating)
Yanan Orman Alanlarının Rehabilitasyonu ve Yangına Direnç…: Yangın önleyici tesisler [yardop-6976-operational-fire-resistant-planting] (with its recommendation)
The evidence
Grouped by what each source concluded. Primary evidence rated the plant itself
(a lab, field program, or original curation); corroboration compiled or
republished another source's rating and resolves to its root lineage.
“güç yanan ve rüzgar perdesi oluşturan otsu veya odunsu bitkilerden — frenk inciri”
The YARDOP circular directs managers to preserve, encourage, or use this named taxon in fire-resistant or slow-burning forest and fire-prevention plantings.
