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Burbank Spineless Prickly Pear
Opuntia ‘Burbank Spineless’
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
The price you see is the whole job: the plant supplied, delivered free and professionally installed. Done for you.
Supplied in 400mmtypically 1.5 to 2.5m tall on delivery
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Sizes shown are the sizes we currently source in this species. If you need larger specimens, project quantities or a size not listed, our sourcing team can look for it through our national supplier network. We confirm your exact stock with you on the booking call before anything ships.
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After checkout, our team contacts you to confirm site access and book a day that suits. Most orders are delivered and planted within 2 to 4 weeks of your booking call. Nothing else for you to organise.
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Burbank Spineless Prickly Pear - Opuntia ‘Burbank Spineless’
This is the selection that came out of Luther Burbank's early twentieth century work on spineless cactus, bred so that the pads could be handled and used without the fierce armament of the wild forms. Flat blue green pads build outwards and upwards into a broad branching structure, topped in the warm months by large satiny yellow flowers followed by purple red fruit. As a landscape plant it is pure architecture: hard edged, sculptural and completely indifferent to heat and drought.
Why Burbank Spineless Prickly Pear
Sculptural Pads: Broad flat segments stack into a strong graphic silhouette that suits contemporary and desert style design.
Reduced Spination: Selected for the absence of long spines, though fine glochids can still be present in small numbers, so gloves remain sensible.
Large Flowers: Bright yellow bowl shaped blooms through spring and summer, followed by coloured fruit.
Extreme Drought Hardiness: It stores its own water and will hold form through a rainless summer with no irrigation at all.
Heat and Reflected Glare: Thrives against hot walls, paving and gravel where nearly everything else scorches.
Ideal Applications
Arid and Gravel Gardens: The defining structural plant of a dry, mineral, low input planting.
Hot Wall Feature: Positioned against a north or west facing wall it uses reflected heat rather than suffering from it.
Sculptural Container: Reads strongly in a wide, shallow, sharply drained bowl.
Low Maintenance Commercial Planting: Handles neglect, heat and no irrigation in unattended beds.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1.5 to 2m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 2.5 to 3m
Best Planting Season: Spring and summer, into warm dry soil
Soil & Drainage: Very sharp drainage. Sandy, gravelly or heavily amended soil, and a mounded position in any clay. It rots quickly in cold wet ground
Establishment Care: Water only occasionally in the first warm season and then leave it alone, because overwatering is the single fastest way to kill an Opuntia. Use gravel rather than organic mulch so the base stays dry, wear gloves whenever handling pads, and note that Opuntia is a restricted or declared plant in some Australian states and local government areas, so it is worth confirming what applies where you live.
Plant Details
Height: 2 to 3m
Width: 2 to 3m
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun
Native to: Cultivated selection of Mexican and Central American parentage
Flower Colour: Yellow
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







