Opuntia pailana is a species of the genus Opuntia in the family Cactaceae. The name pailana comes from the sierra de la Paila in the state of Coahuila Mexico where it was discovered.

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Opuntia pailana
Opuntia pailana in a garden centre
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Cactaceae
Genus:	Opuntia
Species:	O. pailana
Binomial name
Opuntia pailana Weing.

Description

The first description was published by Wilhelm Weingart in 1929 in the book Monatsschrift der Deutschen Kakteen-Gesellschaft. Band 1, Nummer 9, 1929, S. 167–169.

As most of the species of the genus Opuntia, Opuntia pailana is a shruby plant with cladodes (leaves racket-shaped) up to one meter high.

The cladods^{[check spelling]} are in color blue-green or when getting older green-yellow, 10 to 14 centimeters long and up to 9 centimeters width. The areoles with dark color support grey-yellow glochids, with long white hairs of trichome.

The areoles support also thorns 2 to 3 centimeters long with white or light grey color, with some darker strips. Most often, they are three, or six to eight on older plants.

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