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Erect shrubs 0.5– 1 m high, rigid, spiny, from a woody rootstock; stems many, striate, the ridges bearing minute, sharp, transparent cells, rarely smooth, brown when young, grey with age branches simple, bearing overlapping cladodes in fascicles; spines on main stems sharp, 4– 10 mm long, straight to recurved; spinules present below each fascicle, 3– 4.5 mm long.. Cladodes 3– 10 per fascicle, filiform (somewhat triangular in cross section), 20– 40(– 65) mm long, turning dark when dry, deciduous, absent at time of flowering.. Inflorescence: flowering branchlet 2.5– 15 cmlong or more; flowers usually paired, placed close together along branchlets; bracts membranous, fimbriate, ovate, ± 2.5 mm long; pedicels ± 2 mm long, terminating in a swollen disc below the perianth.. Tepals white or cream, 3– 4.5 mm long; ovary ovoid, 3-locular with 4 ovules in each locule; style ± 1 mm long with 3-branched stigma.. Berry red, 6– 8 mm in diameter, 1– 2-seeded.
Erect, rigid, spiny shrub, up to 1 m high. Side roots tuberous. Spines sharp, 5-15 mm long, patent to recurved. Cladodes 3-10 per fascicle, filiform, up to 50 mm long, absent at time of flowering. Anthers red. Flowers white or cream.
An erect herb. It is spiny. It can grow to 1 m high. It has a tuberous root. The flowers are cream with yellow anthers.
Flowers creamy with orange anthers, almost leafless in full flower
Erect spiny herb 1-3 ft. high from tuberous roots
