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prickly pear

Opuntia ficus-indica

Photo by Saarbrigger
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Field Notes

Description:

cactus with very sweet fruits and nasty pricks

Habitat:

Marocco next to a road at the atlas mountains. It's a very dry area with a lot of rocks.

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Opuntia ficus-indica

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Comments (4)
Saarbrigger
I'm not a specialist for it, therefor I ask the locals...
HemaShah
great pic!Most opuntia nad prickly pear species look alike. How do you distinguish between edible and non edible?
Saarbrigger
Thanks. You are right. You should wear good gloves if you take them otherwise you will remember the painfull sweetnes of the fruit for long. :-)
Meik Meißner
Awesome picture! I ate some of these once and their really tasty if not for the thousand little thorns on each of the spots (:

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