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What is a prickly pear?
A prickly pear is a type of cactus. (1)
Prickly pears are also known as tuna (fruit), sabra, nopal (paddle, plural nopales), nostle, paddle cactus. (1)
How tall can a prickly pear grow to?
16 to 23 feet
How wide can a prickly pear grow to?
with a crown of over 10 feet in diameter, and a truck diameter of 1 yard. (1)
Where are prickly pears located?
ranges from Canada to the Southern regions of South America. (2)
What are types of prickly pears?
Just within the Sonoran Desert , there are 18 species of prickly pear (2)
Engelmann’s prickly pear (2, 3)
Santa Rita (2)
Indian Fig (2)
Beavertail (2)
Resources
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opuntia
2. https://extension.arizona.edu/pubs/prickly-pear-cactus-food-desert
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opuntia_engelmannii
