Resumen de Opuntia ficus-indica "Anacantha" and "Vertex", first references as cultivated plants in Spain and Europe

Daniel Guillot Ortiz, Emilio Laguna Lumbreras, Jordi López Pujol

• Recently, we have observed in the cacti and succulents collection of the Botanical Garden of Valencia two new cultivars of the introduced ones by Luther Burbank; according to the work recently published by Wiersma (2008), the two cultivars observed by us are �Anacantha� and �Vertex�. These varieties are not cultivated or marketed at present, and we have not find references about their cultivation in Spain and Europe.