USA, Arizona, Pima, Maricopa County: Grown in cultivation at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, AZ, N 33° 27’ 33” W 111° 56’ 35”, 1200 ft., 366 m; accession number 1987-0328-02-3; originally received as a pad collected by Gary Nabhan 87-13, 19 April 1987 with Karen Reichhardt, from Arizona, Pima County, Tohono O'odham (Papago) Indian Reservation Baboquivari District, Topawa Village from the front yard of Laura and Jose Kermen; orignially received as O. phaeacantha; collector's notes: yellow flowering edible landscape plant, fruites used as food, called " " ('i:bhai).
31.813642 -111.825543
753 metros
2472ft
Plant height 7' by 8' wide; stems light gray green; spines dark golden with golden tips; flowers collected late morning, diameter 71-85 mm, length 78-93 mm, outer perianth yellow with wide greenish-yellow mid-stripe with a blush of red at tips, inner perianth bright yellow, some flowers have a slight blush of red at center of petals; stigma lobe number 7-8, green; style verly light cream or yellow; filaments yellow.
Cactus Voucher Project. This is sheet I/II and has the pads. Sheet II/II is DES00074793 and has the flowers, fruit and one pad.; Cultivated.; Cultivated or Captive