Spines are minimal to none on this type of Prickly pear. Location is Tucson and there is much new growth. The best guidebook match I can find is Opuntia laevis but whatever, it's living large....
dc3legs wrote:
Spines are minimal to none on this type of Prickly pear. Location is Tucson and there is much new growth. The best guidebook match I can find is Opuntia laevis but whatever, it's living large....
Looks like you may have some fruit to enjoy!
dc3legs wrote:
Spines are minimal to none on this type of Prickly pear. Location is Tucson and there is much new growth. The best guidebook match I can find is Opuntia laevis but whatever, it's living large....
Not sure which prickly pear exactly that you have but those bumps usually have miserable mini spines that are near impossible to remove.
They were actually developed to be "Spineless" so cattle could eat them.
My In-Laws owned a house once that was surrounded by these. Personal history made me cautious, but theirs, at least, were smooth. Burn the stickers off, and fry them up in a pan for breakfast.
Deer love them here in San Antonio
dc3legs wrote:
Spines are minimal to none on this type of Prickly pear. Location is Tucson and there is much new growth. The best guidebook match I can find is Opuntia laevis but whatever, it's living large....
Yes they are of the Optunia family. There's are 2 branches, prickly pear which this is and lives about 20 years, shortest lived of all cacti. They have plates break off though that take root and grow.
There are dozens of varieties.
Ps the other branch is the Cholla.
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