cactus pear
Desert plant's fruit
A cactus pear is the edible fruit of the prickly pear cactus, oval-shaped with a thick rind covered in small spines.
The sweet flesh inside ranges from green to deep red.
Also called prickly pear or tuna, it's common in Mexican and Mediterranean cuisines: She peeled the cactus pears carefully to avoid the spines.
- tunasLarge migratory ocean fish
- fruitEdible plant ovary
- peelOuter fruit layer
- CAM photosynthesisNocturnal CO2 fixation pathway
- sweetTasting of sugar
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climate origin
cactus pearapple
Crisp tree fruit
cherry · blueberry · cranberry · lingonberry · cloudberry
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