Puzzling freebie for ID

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Puzzling freebie for ID

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This came as a lost-label freebie with an online buy. Any ideas? My first thought was T.alexanderi but the spine distribution doesn't look quite right. Pen shows scale - so main body quite big.
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Maybe a Cumulopuntia sphaerica that's had a hard time with rsm?
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Re: Puzzling freebie for ID

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MikeT wrote: Wed Oct 19, 2022 3:24 pm Maybe a Cumulopuntia sphaerica that's had a hard time with rsm?
Thanks Mike. It may well be :).

I think it is part of an old collection being disposed of. Other plants from same source look to have had a hard life too.
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