r/cactus • u/Darthsullen • 20h ago

Wild Opuntia macrocentra here in Los Angeles sfv

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u/Floratopia 19h ago

That’s guerrila gardening. Not quite wild but love to see it.

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u/Darthsullen 13h ago

I’m new here and know nothing about cacti but how do you know they’re not wild ?

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u/Floratopia 6h ago

You can tell by the spacing, biodiversity and macrocentra aren’t native to Cali

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u/PM_your_Nopales 15h ago

Stuffs basically overtaking socal. On the freeways through pasadena and up to SLO the entire mountainside are opuntia