Prickly Pear Cactus with new growth & seed pods growing wild several plants grouped together amongst trees and wild vegetation

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This is a wild Prickly Pear Cactus or Paw Paw growing wild amongst scrub land and weed infested a large number of new plants growing on the larger,older padles of the catcus. Latin Name is OPUNTIA it is used as an intoxicant in some locations. This is an old established group of plants In many areas it is designated a weed and usually killed by burning. It is edible and know by alternative names such as Fig

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Size: 4287px × 2848px
Location: Andalucia Spain
Photo credit: © Anthony Copperman / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: buds, cactus, clades, culinary, edible, fig, fruit, growing, intoxicant, mopal, noxious, opuntia, padle, paw, pear, plant, plants, platy, pods, prickles, prickly, seed, spikes, spines, weed, wild