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Opuntia, commonly called the prickly pear cactus, is a genus of flowering plants in the cactus family Cactaceae, many known for their flavorful fruit and showy flowers. [1] Cacti are well-adapted to aridity; however, they are still vulnerable to alterations in precipitation and temperature driven by climate change. [ 2 ]
Common English names for the plant and its fruit are Indian fig opuntia, Barbary fig, cactus pear, prickly pear, and spineless cactus, among many others. [3] In Mexican Spanish, the plant is called nopal, a name that may be used in American English as culinary terms. Peninsular Spanish mostly uses higo chumbo for the fruit and chumbera for the ...
The reddish-brown fruit is a pome, 2–3 cm (3 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) diameter, with wide-spreading persistent sepals around a central pit, giving a 'hollow' appearance to the fruit. [7] In cultivated forms the diameter is even between 3 and 8 cm ( 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 and 3 + 1 ⁄ 4 in).
Opuntia engelmannii is a prickly pear common across the south-central and Southwestern United States and northern Mexico.It goes by a variety of common names, including desert prickly pear, discus prickly pear, Engelmann's prickly pear [2] in the US, and nopal, abrojo, joconostle, and vela de coyote in Mexico.
“The freeze-drying process uses lower temperatures than traditional drying methods, which helps the fruit retain a higher percentage of vitamins, antioxidants and polyphenols,” explains Jaclyn ...
1. A prickly fruit. 2. A rough or prickly propagule consisting of a seed or fruit and associated floral parts or bract s. buttress root A root growing from an above-ground stem or trunk, and providing support, e.g. commonly of Ficus macrophylla
The definition of fruit for this list is a culinary fruit, defined as "Any edible and palatable part of a plant that resembles fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or semi-sweet vegetables, some of which may resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were ...
Opuntia phaeacantha is a species of prickly pear cactus known by the common names brown-spine prickly pear, tulip prickly pear, and desert prickly pear, which is found across the southwestern United States, lower Great Plains, and northern Mexico. The plant forms dense but localized thickets.