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. Cacti are native to the Americas, and are well adapted to arid climates; however, they are still vulnerable to alterations in precipitation and temperature driven by climate change. The plant has been introduced to parts of Australia, southern Europe, the Middle East, and northern Africa.
Prickly pear alone is more commonly used to refer exclusively to the fruit, but may also be used for the plant itself; in addition, other names given to the plant and its specific parts include tuna (fruit), sabra, sabbar, nopal (pads, plural nopales) from the Nahuatl word nōpalli, nostle (fruit) from the Nahuatl word nōchtli, and paddle cactus. The genus is named for the Ancient Greek city of Opus. The fruit and leaves are edible. The most common culinary species is the “Barbary fig”
Opuntia is regarded as an aggressive invasive species.
Distribution
Like most true cactus species, prickly pears are native only to the Americas. Through human action, they have since been introduced to many other areas of the world. Prickly pear species are found in abundance in Mexico, especially in the central and western regions, and in the Caribbean islands (West Indies). In the United States, prickly pears are native to many areas of the arid, semi-arid, and drought-prone Western and South Central United States, including the lower elevations of the Rocky Mountains and southern Great Plains
Opuntia species are the most cold-tolerant of the lowland cacti, extending into western and southern Canada.
Prickly pears produce a fruit known as tuna, commonly eaten in Mexico and in the Mediterranean region, which is also used to make aguas frescas.
Prickly pear fruit for sale at a market, Zacatecas, Mexico
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These ice pops aren’t freezing fast enough
Update: They’re still liquid.
Update: They’re not even slushy.
did you remember to turn on your freezer
The freezer is on, but it’s a landlord special. We’re looking at about 10% slush now.
did you seperate them or are they in a box together?
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it’s hot
i’m sunburned
i don’t have central air
Pascal Siakam is such an awesome name
Absolutely hooping too
Yeah he’s incredible
The Pacers are so fun to watch and root for
Love watching ethical basketball succeed
I’ve been tasked with creating “Copilot agents” for a project at work, because my boss doesn’t want to spend money to get something that actually works, and I think I am going to go minecraft. The training videos the IT guy sent me are like surface level bullshit that has nothing to do with what my boss wants to accomplish. I can’t upload anything to chatgpt because it has been blocked by IT.
surface level
Why does amca have so much time between episodes? I want to listen to these nerds talk about kotor 2 some more
The incels were told to touch grass and decided to use that opportunity to vote for Trump #wordshaveconsequences
Been thinking about Final Fantasy X. There’s something thematically interesting that the game’s writing doesn’t do justice with the fact that Tidus doesn’t really exist but Yuna falls in love with him anyway. Like the world he comes from represents a utopian vision of the past, but a progressive rather than regressive one, where people don’t worry about Sin and their technological progress allows them to spend all or nearly all of their time pursuing leisure. By comparison Yuna has spent all her life serving others and society at large, preparing for her destiny of being a human sacrifice for Godzilla.
She’s been told her whole life by the church that the utopia enjoyed by pre-Sin Spira was decadent and fell because of that - but it turns out by the end of the game that all of that is completely bunk. The people of Spira didn’t destroy their world with machina, they got invaded by an alien that devours life by the cityload and has the ability to turn any force capable of defeating it into the very energy it will use to regenerate itself. The church of Yevon are essentially Spira’s collaborators with the invading entity, creating a society that serves the colonizing force that places themselves on top at the cost of everyone else.
Anyway I guess if I was remaking it I would really focus on this stuff instead of doing what they did and just making it a kinda generic tragic love story.
i be looping i rlly want to stay at your house from cyberpunk everytime im hung up on a baddie w/ trust issues (i.e. this describes every baddie i have ever loved also i.e. my most recent relationship is truly cooked for now, RIP)
Burned the back of my throat with the bean baritus ; laying on the floor, wishing to know the feeling of floor sleep
it is june 19 and stalin saved the world from fascism
sorry for the crime of another pro- AI comment but I kinda like how I googled blossom end rot and the AI said a bunch of shit and then
"Important Note: Blossom-end rot is a common issue and not a reflection of poor gardening skills. "
like thank you robot i appreciate the encouragement even if you’re not sentient <3
on that note does anyone know anything about foliar calcium sprays, like, would that work good enough, I think the problem is I’ve just been hitting them with this miracle grow all purpose fertilizer which, upon reading, doesn’t seem to have calcium in it. I also put in some tomato fertilizer which probably does have calcium but I’m too lazy to go outside to read the bag, but either way I be havin’ some blossom end rotted up tomatoes. My cherry tomatoes are fine, it’s just the roma tomato plant
would I be better off putting egg shells into a blender and pouring that in
if you are sure it’s calcium, throw little chalk/marble, it works fine-ish in acidic soil, although highly unusual for it too get that bad
idk the tips of the tomatoes opposite the stalk connection are turning black
maybe try your blender idea, probably faster than waiting for spray (if you are sure it’s not disease)
decided to go pee out in the back yard because there were two cockroaches in the bathroom that aren’t even running away from the light anymore. This sucks.In preparation for 28 Years Later I decided to rewatch Days. It’s been probably 15 years since I last saw the film, mostly I remembered Brendan Gleeson and that bit at the beginning of the movie where Cillian Murphy is walking around a deserted London.
I forgot that Christopher Eccleston is in it, and also that in the last act Cillian Murphy, who was just a normal man thrust into the apocalypse, turns into a damn operator. Like fucking Solid Snake. Or if that’s not right (I’ve never played a MGS game) then like Corvo from Dishonored.
