eve’s pin cactus
Austrocylindropuntia subulata can reach heights up to 4 meters, with numerous branches. The elongated, slightly brittle branches are up to 50 centimeters long. The stems are marked by rhomboid to ovate bumps in a few spiral rows. At the tip of each bump is the areole, from which grow one to four straight, grayish-white spines up to 8 centimeters long. The awl-like rudimentary leaves are up to 12 centimeters long.
South Australia
Cool Arid
Branching shrub to three metres tall. Forms patches to eight metres wide. Leaves to 12 centimetres long and these may persist for more than one season.
Austrocylindropuntia could displace other species from native vegetation and hinder movement of humans and animals. However, they are slow growing and have not been reported as causing problems in South Australia. Austrocylindropuntia may be able to naturalise in areas of South Australia south of 32° S.
Stem segments are glossy green, sometimes with a purple tinge (especially around the areoles and margins). Often more than 2 cm thick, 5–25 cm long.
Leaves: evergreen wide leaves, elongated 30-60 or 120 mm long, curved, fleshy and persistent.
Flowers are pink. Fruit large, solitary or in small chains of 2–4, green, 50–135 mm long.
It spread by seeds dispersal
A. cylindrica
