OPUNTIA

Descriptors
Category: CHEMICAL
  1. Fruit acidity (FRUITACID) pH of fruit pulp, average of 3 fruits/plant, on 3 different plants, 3 days after harvest
  2. Solubles solids content (SOLUBLES) refrac. percent, average of 3 fruits/plant, on 3 different plants at harvest date
Category: INSECT
  1. Insect scale infestation (SCALES) Insect scale infestation on the cladode
Category: MORPHOLOGY
  1. Flower anther color (ANTHCOLOR) Anther color on the flowers (ASHS color chart)
  2. Cladode tendency to break off (CLADBREAK) Naturally broken off cladodes during one season (average number per plant)
  3. Cladode color (CLADCOLOR) Cladode color (ASHS color chart)
  4. Cladode frost damage (CLADFROST) Cladode winter frost or mechanical damage on 3 of most damaged plants in April
  5. Cladode length(cm) (CLADLENGTH) Cladode length in centimeters, average of 3 fully grown cladodes from previous year at the longest point
  6. Cladode thickness(cm) (CLADTHICK) Cladode thickness in centimeters, average of 3 fully grown cladodes from previous year at the thickest point
  7. Cladode width(cm) (CLADWIDTH) Cladode width in centimeters, average of 3 fully grown cladodes from previous year at the widest point
  8. Cladode width at its base(cm) (CLADWIDTHB) Cladode width at its base in cm, average of 3 fully grown cladodes from previous years
  9. Flower filament color (FILACOLOR) Filament color on the flower (ASHS colr chart)
  10. Fruit number per aerole (FRUITAEROL) Fruit number per aerole, average of 3 aeroles on cladodes
  11. Fruit color (FRUITCOLOR) Fruit color, Outer skin color of fully grown fruits at harvest time
  12. Fruit firmness (FRUITFIRM) Fruit firmness of edible portion (at harvest date, average of 2 fruits per plant,kg)
  13. Fruit number (FRUITNUM) Fruit number per plant (fruits harvested divided by number of plants)
  14. Fruit spines (FRUITSPINE) Spines on fruits
  15. Fruit weight (FRUITWGT) Fruit weight in grams (fruits weight harvested divide by number of fruits)
  16. Flower petal color (PETALCOLOR) Petal color of the flowers at full bloom
  17. Flower petal number (PETALNUM) Number of petals on the flowers, the average of 2 fully developed flowers on 3 plants
  18. Flower pollen shed (POLLENSHED) Pollen shed of the flowers
  19. Seed color (SEEDCOLOR) Seed color
  20. Spine length on the cladode (SPINELEN_C) Average spine length on cladode, longest of 3 different spines on 3 cladode (mm)
  21. Spine number on the cladode (SPINENUM_C) Spine number per cladode (3 aeroles on 3 different cladode from previous year)
  22. Spines rudimentary on cladode (SPINERUDI) Spines rudimentary on the cladode, on 2 year old cladode
  23. Spines strong on cladode (SPINESTRNG) Spines strong on the cladode, on 2 year old cladode
  24. Spine tip shape on cladode (SPINETIP) Shape of the tips of the spines on the cladode
  25. Flower stigma color (STIGCOLOR) Stigma color of the flowers (ASHS color chart)
  26. Flower style color (STYLCOLOR) Style color of the flowers (ASHS color chart)
Category: OTHER
  1. Image/picture (IMAGE) A picture or image
Category: PHENOLOGY
  1. Day of first flower (Julian) (FLOWERDAY) Day of first flower (Julian) 10 flowers have opened
Category: PRODUCTION
  1. Seed weight of 100 seeds (SEEDWGT) Weight of 100 seeds in grams
  2. Seed weight per fruit (SEEDYIELD) Seed weight, average seed weight of 5 fruits in grams