Beautiful Opuntia ID

[Mrs.cactus]

Could anyone help ID this beauty?

I saw this at the botanical garden here, in Arizona, but it didn't have a name tag!!

Would love to get this specimen for my own garden!

Thank you!

[anttisepp]

Opuntia basilaris IMHO

[Mrs.cactus]

Opuntia basilaris IMHO

That was my initial guess as well. But I have o. Basilaris in my yard and it's full of glochids.
The cactus in question doesn't appear to have any. That's what is confusing

[MikeInOz]

I don't think it's basilaris. I was going to say robusta, but unless you are an expert on Opuntia it's not easy.

[vitt13]

It looks close to Opuntia Cacanapa / Opuntia Ellisiana Spineless https://www.gardentags.com/profile/daze ... apa/676053
and https://www.opuntiads.com/opuntia-cacan ... ellisiana/

O. cacanapa ‘Ellisiana’ is a garden variant of O. cacanapa that has no spines at all and essentially no glochids. O. cacanapa ‘Ellisiana’ may seem different from the parent Opuntia. However, O. cacanapa and O. cacanapa ‘Ellisiana’ share key features that demonstrate their relatedness: 1) strongly recurved leaves on cladodes and flowers, 2) pale stigmas with white styles, 3) white filaments with yellow anthers, 4) general shape and size of the fruits, 5) obovate or subcircular cladodes, 6) identical bloom periods, and 7) arborescent growth or formation of large shrubs.