• Opuntia Lake is a shallow, man-made salt lake in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It was formed with the construction of the Opuntia Control along...
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    Opuntia, commonly called the prickly pear cactus, is a genus of flowering plants in the cactus family Cactaceae, many known for their flavorful fruit...
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  • List of Opuntia species. The genus Opuntia is within the tribe Opuntieae of the subfamily Opuntioideae, in the family Cactaceae. Species of Opuntia currently...
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  • Upstream is Eaglehill Lake (the source of Eagle Creek) and downstream is the man-made Opuntia Lake. At the northern end of the lake on a tributary of Eagle...
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  • Dam Makwa Lake Control Moose Mountain Dam Moosomin Dam Opuntia Lake Control Pike Lake Water Supply Qu'Appelle River Dam Rafferty Dam Round Lake Dam Scott...
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    Nesslin Lake Newnham Lake Nickle Lake Nipekamew Lake Nistowiak Lake Old Wives Lake Opuntia Lake Otter Lake Pagan Lake Parr Hill Lake Pasqua Lake Patience...
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    Opuntia fragilis, known by the common names brittle pricklypear and little prickly pear, is a prickly pear cactus native to much of western North America...
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    Opuntia austrina, also known as the Florida prickly pear (with other common names such as the devils-tongue and hammock prickly pear), is a prickly pear...
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    Opuntia diploursina is a species in the family Cactaceae, that grows near and in Lake Mead National Recreation Area and extending northward across Nevada's...
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    Eagle Creek (Saskatchewan) (category Tramping Lake No. 380, Saskatchewan)
    Tramping Lake, Eagle Creek carries on southward and flows into the 1,383-hectare (3,420-acre), man-made Opuntia Lake. From the Opuntia Lake, the river...
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    much water as possible during the blazing hot days of summer. Species of Opuntia, Yucca, Scrub plum, and scrub Serenoa repens palm dot the landscape and...
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  • Carmine (redirect from Carmine lake)
    70,000 cochineal insects are required.: 82  Zapotec cochineal nests on Opuntia ficus-indica host cacti Use of carmine as a staining agent in histology...
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    the Southwest United States), this insect lives on cacti in the genus Opuntia, feeding on plant moisture and nutrients. The insects are found on the...
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  • site is on private land. East of Plenty by 6.4 kilometres (4 mi) is Opuntia Lake. It is a stopping place for birds and wildlife and covers approximately...
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  • administers the allocation of water, regulates and controls the flow of rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and other bodies of water, represents the provincial government...
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    Canadian Wildlife Service. The first sanctuary in North America, Last Mountain Lake Bird Sanctuary, was created by federal order-in-council in 1887. There are...
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    californica, eriogonum fasciculatum, agave attenuata (Foxtail agave), opuntia littoralis (Coastal prickly pear), ferocactus viridescens (San Diego barrel...
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    Cypress Hills, Duck Mountain, Good Spirit Lake, Moose Mountain, Katepwa Point, and Little Manitou. Greenwater Lake was added in 1932. Two more parks were...
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    2016. Biggar Museum Dodsland & District Museum Plenty & District Museum Opuntia Lake National Migratory Bird Sanctuary The RM of Grandview No. 349 is governed...
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    The elevations a long the valley vary from approximately 1,950 feet at Lake Opuntia to 1,900 feet where the stream leaves the municipality. The elevation...
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    huisache (Vachellia farnesiana var. farnesiana) and prickly pear cactus (Opuntia spp.). Greater roadrunners, collared peccaries, white-tailed deer, and...
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    Tenochtitlan (category Lake islands of Mexico)
    atop a cactus (Opuntia), which had grown from the heart of Copil. The Mexica saw this vision on what was then a small swampy island in Lake Texcoco, a vision...
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    (Psorothamnus scoparius) occurs on sandy soils in western portions. Yucca and Opuntia species are abundant on slopes and uplands in most areas, while Arizona...
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    (Cylindropuntia spp.), beavertail (Opuntia basilaris), hedgehog (Echinocereus spp.), fishhook (Ferocactus wislizeni), prickly pear (Opuntia spp.), nightblooming cereus...
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    Mexicas referred to themselves as the "People of the Sun". The cactus (Opuntia ficus-indica), full of its fruits, called nōchtli in Nahuatl, represents...
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    (Acamptopappus shockleyi) an indicator species of the Mojave Silver cholla (Opuntia echinocarpa), a common species of cacti in the Mojave A creosote bush,...
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  • area includes creosote bush, saltbush and Opuntia. There is more vegetation in washes and on river terraces. Lake Mojave existed between 22,000 and 9,000...
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  • boldinghii Opuntia bravoana Opuntia caracassana Opuntia chlorotica, dollar-joint prickly-pear Opuntia decumbens Opuntia depressa Opuntia elata Opuntia elatior...
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    Baltra and Daphne islands. Cacti include several endemic species of OpuntiaOpuntia echios, O. helleri, and others – and the endemic genera Jasminocereus...
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    ground finches that serve the dual purpose of allowing them to feed on Opuntia cactus nectar and pollen while these plants are flowering, but on seeds...
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