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Texas Prickly Pear (with lodged pellet)

Opuntia engelmannii

Photo by JohnDews
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Field Notes

Description:

An opuntia growing close to the ground in an urban dog park. One paddle is blossoming. One paddle has a strange blue growth (or perhaps a berry or debris is lodged inside a diseased spot?)

Habitat:

Urban, rocky area

Notes:

Monterone Canyon Creek 78726

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
JohnDews
I removed the blue sphere from the cactus paddle this morning, and it definitely is not organic. It probably is a pellet or something like that. So not quite as exotic as I thought :)
KristalWatrous
Could the blue ball be a pellet from a pellet gun? Looks very out of place like it's not made by the cactus, and the leaf is damaged around it.

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PublishedNovember 14, 2011

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