Cylindropuntia rosea, the Hudson pear, is a cactus native to the Sonoran Desert in Arizona and Northwestern Mexico.

Cylindropuntia rosea, the Hudson pear, has pink flowers and white spines.

It is very similar to Cylindropuntia tunicata which also grows in the same region and has yellow and straw coloured flowers.

It has spread from the opal fields around Lightning Ridge in New South Wales, occupying some 60,000 ha around Lightning Ridge, Brewarrina, Broken Hill, Baradine, Coonamble, and Goodooga, New South Wales and is also found in Western Australia and Queensland.

[3] The plant is spread by stem pieces, and possibly by fruits, that have attached to rubber tyres and shoes.