Types of Prickly Pear Cactus
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- Опубликовано: 3 июн 2024
- Prickly Pear Types @ParadiseOnPennies
Today, I’m presenting several Prickly Pear cacti you can meet in North America.
You’ll see the Brown-spined prickly pear, a common prickly pear especially in the Sonoran and Chihuahuan and other deserts across Arizona to Texas and even up and to Utah. It’s a spreading Cactus with not much of a trunk and not in clusters or tight mounds like the hedgehogs we've seen. Pads grow in chains and are typically about 5 inches in size. It also has juicy red to purple fruits or tunas as they’re called in some places!
You’ll meet the pancake prickly pear which grows up to around 7 feet tall. This guy is like a prickly pear tree with trunk and all!! You can find the pancake prickly pear all over the Southwest and it has orange or yellow flowers!
And did you know that Prickly Pear's aren't always characteristically green!? Some are a blue green but some are even purple! The Santa Rita Prickly Pear, named for the mountains where it's found, often has a purplish tinge and the discoloration is caused by a pigment known as betacyanin, a product the plant creates in response to stress is like cold or drought or a lack of water access. It has few to no spines.
And there are other spineless varieties, like the Blind Pear. Find out where it gets it name today & learn about a bunch of other prickly pears, many with edible fruits, as we explore Prickly Pears here!
References & Further Readings
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Blind Pears, Opuntia & view of red glochids
By JMK
Blind Pear
By Amante Darmanin
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🙏thanks for your excilent work on 🌵cactus plants.
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Chollas are cylindropuntia :) thanks for the video, good info
Well there at the end you answered my question before I could ask it which ones were edible I have seen where they burn the spines off before they pick them to eat good thing to know in the desert I was wondering if you ever run across any peyote 😁😆👌😉🐝
:) So, I think peyotes range is in TX, maybe parts of Mexico is all. We have gone to TX a few times but no. Isn’t that the one that maybe gets you high or something !?
@@ParadiseOnPennies yes ma'am I saw a documentary that they actually cultivate them in Mexico they are legal for the indigenous tribes who use it in their spiritual ceremonies I just wondered if they grew outside of that like in the wild 👍😎🐝
I planted my Prickly Pear Cactusus about 2 years ago. I've only got 3 Pears on 1 & right now 1 on the other. 2 fell of the 1 that had 3 probably pour pollination & this years 1 still, their. I'm wondering if U know how I can force it 2 produce a lot, more?
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mic training you want to be further away from your mic. your audio is popping when you speak.
great info though.