(Opuntia polyacantha erinacea)
Opuntia erinacea,(Mojave prickly pear) is a species in the Cactaceae family,that is a distributed throughout the Mojave and Great Basin deserts.Opuntia erinacea is proposed by some botanists to be an allopolyploid that resulted from hybridization between Opuntia diploursina and Opuntia basilaris.