41. Gal�pagos Doves spend most of their time on the ground or lowlands searching for food, mainly feeding off the Opuntia Cactus and caterpillars. 42. Parfitt's original description coining the name " Opuntia pinkavae " and the treatment attributed to Pinkava in Flora of North America 43. Under his supervision, the botanical illustrator Louis Charles Christopher Krieger painted a series of watercolors of his " Opuntia " collection. 44. Of special note are the rich cacti ( 10, 350 plants in 1, 350 taxa ), especially the Opuntia sub-family. 45. Two cacti he may have collected in the Glass Mountains area are " Echinocereus caespitosus " and " Opuntia phaecantha ". 46. One adult found in 1905 had eaten the fruit of " Opuntia engelmannii " in sufficient quantities that its flesh was tinted purple. 47. Species of Opuntia , Yucca, and scrub Serenoa repens palm dot the landscape and are well adapted to the hot sun and fast draining soils. 48. For example, the Indian fig opuntia ( Opuntia ficus-indica ), is now so common in the warmer parts of the Southern Italy. 49. For example, the Indian fig opuntia ( Opuntia ficus-indica ), is now so common in the warmer parts of the Southern Italy. 50. Here, under the supervision of David Griffiths, he produced a series of images on species of the " Opuntia " cactus genus.
