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|accepted_name=Cylindropuntia prolifera
|accepted_authority=(Engelmann) F. M. Knuth in C. Backeberg and F. M. Knuth
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in C. Backeberg and F. M. Knuth, Kaktus-ABC,
|place=126. 1935
|year=1935
}}
|common_names=Coastal cholla
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Opuntia prolifera
|authority=Engelmann
|publication_title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts, ser.
|publication_place=2, 14: 338. 1852
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cactaceae;Cactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae;Cylindropuntia;Cylindropuntia prolifera
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cactaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Cactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cylindropuntia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cylindropuntia prolifera]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 105, 109
|treatment_page=page 108
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or small trees, erect, 0.6–2.5 m. <b>Stem</b> segments easily detached, whorled or sub-whorled, green-gray, 4–15 × 3.5–5 cm; tubercles prominent, broadly oval, 1.5–2.5 cm; areoles subcircular to obovate, 4–7 × 3–5 mm; wool tan, aging brown to black. <b>Spines</b> 6–12 per areole, in all but proximalmost areoles, spreading, usually deflexed in abaxial ones, pale red-brown to dark brown, acicular, the longest to 2 cm; sheaths pale yellow-brown, shiny. <b>Glochids</b> in adaxial crescent and few along margin of areole, yellow to brown, 0.5–2.5 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: inner tepals rose to magenta, to 20 mm; filaments yellow-green to distally tinted pink to magenta; anthers yellow, sometimes bearing stigma-tipped, stylelike appendages; style greenish yellow to often pink distally; stigma lobes yellow to white. <b>Fruits</b> usually sterile, often proliferating into short erect chains of 2–5 fruits, green, broadly ovoid to top-shaped, 21–25(–35) × 20–32 mm, fleshy, smooth to shallowly tuberculate, spineless; umbilicus broadly shallow, 5–7 mm deep; areoles (20–)25–35. <b>Seeds</b> rare, globose; girdle smooth. <b>2n</b> = 22, usually 33.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring (Apr–Jul).
|habitat=Ocean bluffs, inland coastal sage flats, hills
|elevation=to 300 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|discussion=<p><i>Cylindropuntia prolifera</i> is of hybrid origin; it occupies a habitat different from its putative parents, C. alcahes (F. A. C. Weber) F. M. Knuth and C. cholla (F. A. C. Weber) F. M. Knuth, two Mexican species.</p>
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name=Cylindropuntia prolifera
|author=
|authority=(Engelmann) F. M. Knuth in C. Backeberg and F. M. Knuth
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Opuntia prolifera
|family=Cactaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring (Apr–Jul).
|habitat=Ocean bluffs, inland coastal sage flats, hills
|elevation=to 300 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|reference=None
|publication title=in C. Backeberg and F. M. Knuth, Kaktus-ABC,
|publication year=1935
|special status=
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|subfamily=Cactaceae subfam. Opuntioideae
|genus=Cylindropuntia
|species=Cylindropuntia prolifera
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