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WAIT TILL AFTER THE FIRST HEAVY FROST AND THEY TURN BROWN THEN THEY ARE VERY GOOD
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 16y agoVery carefully! Seriously the spines are awful. They can be burned off in a flame, or the skin can be carefully peeled while wearing gloves.
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Are pears related to prickly pears?
No. The pear tree is in the family Rosaceae (rose family) in the genus Pyrus, and the prickly pear cactus is in the Cactaceae family in the genus Opuntia. Source: Wikipedia.
What does a desert plant eat?
Desert herbivores primarily feed on grasses and some edible shrubs and trees and their fruits and seeds. In North American deserts, prickly pear cacti also form a part of their diet.
What consumers eat cacti?
Many animals will eat cacti, but mostly as a last resort since it is very prickly. Both the black-tailed and the antelope jackrabbit will eat the cacti during times of drought. Humans are able to eat prickly pear cacti and have made it so popular it is the state fruit of Texas.
How are cactus and prickly pear able to survive in the desert while tea plants cannot?
they are succulents and retain water in their leaves.
Do kangaroos eat the cactus?
Some members of the snake family are very small. The smallest known member of the very wide-ranging kangaroo family is the Musky Rat-kangaroo, which is about 23cm long, and this little creature easily falls prey to snakes. Some snakes, particularly pythons, will certainly try to eat kangaroos which are the size of wallabies. Pythons are also known predators of tree kangaroos.
What is the state plant of Texas?
The Prickly Pear Cactus
What animals eat the cactus pear?
There is no such place as the Saguaro Desert. There is the Sonoran Desert where the saguaro cactus grows. Some small animals such as rodents and rabbits feed on the prickly pear as well as javelina, deer, pronghorns, bighorn sheep and tortoises.
What desert animals eat prickly pear cactus?
desert tortouise
Do prickly pears have predators?
No, only animals can have predators. However there are animals that do eat prickly pears (including humans).
Which pear is not a pear?
A "prickly pear" is not actually a pear.
Genus of the cactus family comprising the prickly pear?
the prickly pear is the opuntia genus and the most popular one is opuntia ficus indica and that is the one that people eat the pads and the fruit which looks like a pear.
Does the Galapagos giant tortoise eat the prickly pear cactus?
Yes. Yes it does.
A sentence with the word prickkly pear in it?
Rabbits, deer & bear eat the young flower buds of the prickly pear cactus.
What animals eat cacti in the desert?
The desert tortoise, javelina and deer will eat prickly pear cacti.
What do Darwin's finch eat?
They mostly eat the Optunia a catuse also called a prickly pear.
Where does the prickly pear cactus live?
on a pear
Is the prickly pear and cactus relationship mutualism or commensalism?
A prickly pear is a cactus. There is no commensalism or mutualism.
