Tacinga inamoena

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Tacinga inamoena, photographed by B. Phalan — fig. a B. Phalan, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-01-01 / obs. 29817629

Tacinga inamoena, photographed by Breno Figueiredo — fig. b Breno Figueiredo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67332955

Tacinga inamoena, photographed by Arlucio C. Ribeiro Filho — fig. g Arlucio C. Ribeiro Filho, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 123312763

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Native distribution of Tacinga inamoena, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Brazil Northeast	BZE	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil Southeast	BZL

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 99 in flower of 211 examined

52%

70%

54%

38%

29%

13%

29%

50%

71%

79%

44%

45%

Proportion of examined Tacinga inamoena in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	12	23	52%	33% to 71%
Feb	7	10	70%	40% to 89%
Mar	7	13	54%	29% to 77%
Apr	3	8	38%	14% to 69%
May	2	7	29%	8% to 64%
Jun	4	32	13%	5% to 28%
Jul	8	28	29%	15% to 47%
Aug	10	20	50%	30% to 70%
Sep	22	31	71%	53% to 84%
Oct	15	19	79%	57% to 91%
Nov	4	9	44%	19% to 73%
Dec	5	11	45%	21% to 72%

Peak flowering in Oct. Each bar is the share of Tacinga inamoena observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 99 of 211 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 3 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Opuntia inamoena K.Schum.
Opuntia inamoena var. flaviflora Backeb.
Platyopuntia inamoena (K.Schum.) F.Ritter

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.