Mexico, Nuevo Leon, Maricopa County: Grown in cultivation at Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, N 33 deg 27' 33'', W 111 deg 56' 35'', 1200 ft., 366 m: accession number 1994 0059 0101; originally received as a plant from California State Fullerton Arboretum, originally collected by David Walkington 51, 27 July 1962; Mexico, Nuevo Leon, East side of Rt 85, 49 miles south of USA-Mexico border, 1 mile N of KM 1137 in Rio Salado River bed along roadside in disturbed soil; elevation 400 feet; originally received as Opuntia phaeacantha var. discarta, name changed per Raul Puente.
26.861381 -99.834676 +-6000m.
Plant growth sprawling, 6 feet by 5 feet by 2 feet height; flowers collected in morning and afternoon; flower diameter 54-75 mm, length 76-85 mm; outer perianth yellow with wide reddish-brown midstripe, inner perianth bronze at base to golden yellow at tips; stigma lobe number 7-9, color green; thigmotrophic positive; pollen collected; pads bluish gray-green; spines reddish-brown with golden tips or tan or multi-colored, 0-5 spines per areole, glochids reddish-brown.