I peeled the skin of the cactus pear,cleaned the barbs off,cut the skin in slices and cooked them with some olive oil and fresh cut onions with sliced tomatoes and green Chile pepper...it was good.Phillthethrill!
No, it is not: Native Americans have been using it for centuries (that we know of).
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The Prickly Pear Cactus
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Yes. Yes it does.
Rabbits, deer & bear eat the young flower buds of the prickly pear cactus.
The exterior skin must be scraped off since it contains spines and will irritate your lips and mouth. After that is can be eaten or used to make candies and preserves.
Yes, cactus comprises about 40% of the pronghorns' diet.Clarification:No large animals that I am aware of eat the saguaro. The prickly pear cactus is usually the choice for many animals, including the pronghorn.
No large animals that I am aware of eat the saguaro. The prickly pear cactus is usually the choice for many animals.
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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.
A prickly pear is a cactus. There is no commensalism or mutualism.
Yes,it does in fact that's how it gets water!
Pear Cactus is used to help with diabetes, but no studies prove that Pear Cactus will cure diabetes.