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Prickly Pear Cactus

Opuntia species

Photo by jess.blank
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Field Notes

Notes:

Prickly Pear in fruit. We took some of these back to camp to try and eat. They were very seedy and we got little hairy thorns in our fingers. :(

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (1)
Juan DiTrani
Yes, in Mexico people frequently eat that fruit and they call it TUNA. Its very juicy and sweet, but you have to be carefull with the torns on the fruit skin.
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PublishedJune 9, 2011

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