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TNK
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Cactus I.D
#21758103 - 06/03/15 04:45 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Can anybody give me an I.D on these Cacti? I know they are inactive, I just am trying to figure out if I can eat them. Thanks! 
  
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Re: Cactus I.D [Re: TNK]
#21758164 - 06/03/15 05:03 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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They are opuntia,and edible,but you'd have hard time eating the pads with all those spines.
Maybe they will make good fruits
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I have an endless supply of them, they grow in giant patches for hundreds of miles around me.
Does it produce fruit after flowering ??? there are about a dozen patches of them flowering a few hundred feet away from me.
Thank you for the I.D!
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Re: Cactus I.D [Re: TNK]
#21759068 - 06/03/15 08:26 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yea fruit directly follows flowering,and you're welcome.
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the fruit is delicious and makes good jams and Jellies. .. the pads, when young and or removed of spines/glochids, make what are known in mexican cooking as Nopalitos - Nopallitos. they can be cooked like a vegetable in strips and added to fajitas and tacos. Sometimes people pickle the strips too.
hope that helps.
but yes. . it is a kind of Opuntia-cactus.
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TNK
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They are starting to bloom all around me on my elevation, how long does it take from flower to fruit> I'm getting hungry and a man can only survive on noodles and water for so long.
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Re: Cactus I.D [Re: TNK]
#21766635 - 06/05/15 04:34 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Wow what great flower!
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Thanks 
I'm hoping the rain won't hinder their flowering, it just started pouring in the middle of the desert like wtf.smh.
But, I got like 50 acres of these cactus growing so you best believe Im'a make some jam and jellies and put that shit on the marketplace.
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Re: Cactus I.D [Re: TNK]
#21767184 - 06/05/15 06:58 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I have never had an opuntia bloom pink
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TNK
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kactus.brand.g said: I have never had an opuntia bloom pink
Really? How odd, I thought the yellow was special! They are allllll pink is this area, when the bigger patches bloom I'll take some photos. There will be probably close to a thousand of them blooming any day now, as long as the thunder-storms don't fuck shit up. I can't wait
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Re: Cactus I.D [Re: TNK]
#21768261 - 06/05/15 11:45 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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That is VERY interesting. A pink blooming opuntia. I've never seen anything like it before.
Around here they're ALL yellow.
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Next time I go west, I am going to harvest paddles from ten wild plants.
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Without being too specific, which part of the PNW are you finding these in? I really love that pink flowered variety...
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Re: Cactus I.D [Re: TNK]
#21769819 - 06/06/15 10:23 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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TheNatureKid said:
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kactus.brand.g said: I have never had an opuntia bloom pink
Really? How odd, I thought the yellow was special! They are allllll pink is this area, when the bigger patches bloom I'll take some photos. There will be probably close to a thousand of them blooming any day now, as long as the thunder-storms don't fuck shit up. I can't wait 
Yeah all I've seen is yellow my whole life,and all my species bloom yellow.
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BigHeart said: Without being too specific, which part of the PNW are you finding these in? I really love that pink flowered variety...
I'm actually down in the Utah/Arizona/Nevada desert, right on the border of all three states. Just recently moved from the Seattle area.
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