https://wildlife.blog/tags/plant/ Recent content in Plant on Wildlife.blog Hugo en-us https://wildlife.blog/posts/galapagos-cactus/ https://wildlife.blog/posts/galapagos-cactus/ <p>📍 Galápagos Islands</p> <hr> <p><strong>Galápagos Prickly Pear</strong> <em>(Opuntia echios)</em></p> <p>The largest prickly pear in the world, growing tree-sized trunks up to 12 meters tall — an evolutionary arms race with giant tortoises and land iguanas that graze on the lower pads.</p> <p>Endemic to the Galápagos and found across most of the archipelago; its fruit and pads are a critical food source for tortoises, iguanas, finches, and mockingbirds alike.</p> <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opuntia_echios">Wikipedia</a> | <a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/207737-Opuntia-galapageia">iNaturalist</a></p>