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Cinnamon Prickly Pear

Cinnamon Prickly Pear Cactus – A Colorful Touch for Your Garden 🌵✨

Also known as Opuntia rufida, the Cinnamon Prickly Pear is a vibrant prickly pear cactus that adds both color and texture to any landscape. With its similar growth habit to the Angel Wings or Bunny Ear Prickly Pears, this variety stands out with its unique cinnamon-colored spines and occasional purple hues.

Key Features:

Vibrant Colors 🌈: The Cinnamon Prickly Pear features vibrant green pads speckled with cinnamon-colored glochids (small spines) that give it its signature look. Depending on the sun exposure and cooler weather, the pads can develop a stunning purple hue, adding extra character to this already beautiful prickly pear cactus.

Flowers 🌼: This prickly pear cactus produces yellow flowers that add a burst of color during the blooming season, perfectly complementing its unique foliage.

Cold Hardy ❄️: The Cinnamon Prickly Pear is quite cold-tolerant, able to withstand temperatures down to 15°F. This makes it an excellent choice for gardeners in colder climates who want to add a touch of the desert to their landscape.

Fast Growth 🌱: This cactus is a fast grower, reaching up to 3 feet tall and spreading out to 8 feet in diameter when planted in the ground. It's perfect for creating a lush, low-maintenance garden accent.

Ornamental Uses:

Landscape Accent 🌵: The bold colors and unique form of the Cinnamon Prickly Pear make it an excellent accent plant in any garden. Its beautiful hues contrast nicely against other desert plants.

Container Gardening 🪴: If you're looking for a tough, low-maintenance potted plant, the Cinnamon Prickly Pear is a great choice. It thrives in containers and adds visual interest to patios, decks, and balconies.

Low-Maintenance 🛠️: Like other prickly pears, the Cinnamon Prickly Pear is very low-maintenance once established. It requires minimal care, making it perfect for both novice and experienced gardeners alike.

Why Choose Our Cinnamon Prickly Pear Cactus?

Healthy Plants 🌱: Our one-gallon plants average 6"x6" in size and are carefully selected for their health and vigor, ensuring they thrive once planted in your home or garden.

Safe Shipping 📦: We take extra care to package and wrap each plant securely, ensuring it arrives in pristine condition and is very easy to plant. All of our plants come with planting, watering and general care instructions.

Bring home the beauty and unique colors of the Cinnamon Prickly Pear and enjoy its stunning appearance and easy care in your landscape or container garden! 🌵💛

Prickly Pear design and application suggestions:

Prickly Pear design and application suggestions:

Opuntias, the prickly pear family of cacti, can be used in many different ways. In the landscape, the prickly pear family can be used as a very nice contrast to other cacti and succulents. The rounded pads, beautiful flowers of yellow, orange, red and pink plus different pad colors and sizes offer distinguished contrast in the landscape or in a nice container. Some prickly pear species can be used as a succulent groundcover. Some prickly pears, like the Santa Rita “purple” prickly pear, are ideal as unique pieces interspersed throughout the landscape or a nice contrast to a group of cacti and succulents in pots. Prickly pears are also very forgiving. They will tolerate the hottest parts of your landscape and like it! The prickly pear family also thrives on very little water and can take very cold overnight temperatures.

Opuntias, the prickly pear family of cacti, can be used in many different ways. In the landscape, the prickly pear family can be used as a very nice contrast to other cacti and succulents. The rounded pads, beautiful flowers of yellow, orange, red and pink plus different pad colors and sizes offer distinguished contrast in the landscape or in a nice container. Some prickly pear species can be used as a succulent groundcover. Some prickly pears, like the Santa Rita “purple” prickly pear, are ideal as unique pieces interspersed throughout the landscape or a nice contrast to a group of cacti and succulents in pots. Prickly pears are also very forgiving. They will tolerate the hottest parts of your landscape and like it! The prickly pear family also thrives on very little water and can take very cold overnight temperatures.

Prickly Pear design and application suggestions:

Prickly Pear design and application suggestions:

Opuntias, the prickly pear family of cacti, can be used in many different ways. In the landscape, the prickly pear family can be used as a very nice contrast to other cacti and succulents. The rounded pads, beautiful flowers of yellow, orange, red and pink plus different pad colors and sizes offer distinguished contrast in the landscape or in a nice container. Some prickly pear species can be used as a succulent groundcover. Some prickly pears, like the Santa Rita “purple” prickly pear, are ideal as unique pieces interspersed throughout the landscape or a nice contrast to a group of cacti and succulents in pots. Prickly pears are also very forgiving. They will tolerate the hottest parts of your landscape and like it! The prickly pear family also thrives on very little water and can take very cold overnight temperatures.

Opuntias, the prickly pear family of cacti, can be used in many different ways. In the landscape, the prickly pear family can be used as a very nice contrast to other cacti and succulents. The rounded pads, beautiful flowers of yellow, orange, red and pink plus different pad colors and sizes offer distinguished contrast in the landscape or in a nice container. Some prickly pear species can be used as a succulent groundcover. Some prickly pears, like the Santa Rita “purple” prickly pear, are ideal as unique pieces interspersed throughout the landscape or a nice contrast to a group of cacti and succulents in pots. Prickly pears are also very forgiving. They will tolerate the hottest parts of your landscape and like it! The prickly pear family also thrives on very little water and can take very cold overnight temperatures.

Why purchase our Prickly Pear?

Why purchase our Prickly Pear?

Our prickly pears are grown in their native habitat right here in Southern Arizona. Raised outdoors with just the right amount of water and fertilizer, they come to you in their natural form. These plants do not come to you from a greenhouse. They are already hardy to whatever growing conditions you have to offer. You will not see any evidence of pads getting skinny and reaching for light. The prickly pears present the same appearance as you will find them in their native habitats.

If you want to plant them in a container for a sunroom, patio or window planter, great! If you want to take your new prickly pear cacti and plant them in the ground, also great! No acclimation needed. Our plants are ready to go!

Our prickly pears are grown in their native habitat right here in Southern Arizona. Raised outdoors with just the right amount of water and fertilizer, they come to you in their natural form. These plants do not come to you from a greenhouse. They are already hardy to whatever growing conditions you have to offer. You will not see any evidence of pads getting skinny and reaching for light. The prickly pears present the same appearance as you will find them in their native habitats.

If you want to plant them in a container for a sunroom, patio or window planter, great! If you want to take your new prickly pear cacti and plant them in the ground, also great! No acclimation needed. Our plants are ready to go!

Reliable packaging and shipping

Reliable packaging and shipping

We strive to offer the most healthy cacti and succulents you can find anywhere that are shipped right to your door. Our plants are professionally packaged with expertise honed by shipping amazing plants to customers like you for over 20 years. Our packaging process ensures a bare minimum of damaged orders. All of our plants are wrapped in bubble wrap and tape, which should not be taken off until your plant is in its final home. The bubble wrap offers you and the plant additional protection while planting. All of our plants are shipped bare root.

We strive to offer the most healthy cacti and succulents you can find anywhere that are shipped right to your door. Our plants are professionally packaged with expertise honed by shipping amazing plants to customers like you for over 20 years. Our packaging process ensures a bare minimum of damaged orders. All of our plants are wrapped in bubble wrap and tape, which should not be taken off until your plant is in its final home. The bubble wrap offers you and the plant additional protection while planting. All of our plants are shipped bare root.

Reliable packaging and shipping

Reliable packaging and shipping

We strive to offer the most healthy cacti and succulents you can find anywhere that are shipped right to your door. Our plants are professionally packaged with expertise honed by shipping amazing plants to customers like you for over 20 years. Our packaging process ensures a bare minimum of damaged orders. All of our plants are wrapped in bubble wrap and tape, which should not be taken off until your plant is in its final home. The bubble wrap offers you and the plant additional protection while planting. All of our plants are shipped bare root.

We strive to offer the most healthy cacti and succulents you can find anywhere that are shipped right to your door. Our plants are professionally packaged with expertise honed by shipping amazing plants to customers like you for over 20 years. Our packaging process ensures a bare minimum of damaged orders. All of our plants are wrapped in bubble wrap and tape, which should not be taken off until your plant is in its final home. The bubble wrap offers you and the plant additional protection while planting. All of our plants are shipped bare root.

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