🍐
Prickly pear
🗓 Season: August · September · October
🔍 When is it ripe?
Turns from green to red, orange, or yellow depending on species. Ripe when skin gives slightly and colour is fully developed. Use tongs and burn off the tiny glochid spines with a flame or rub in sand before handling. Sweet, mild flesh.
One can find prickly pear all along these railroad tracks easily accessible from Southwestern University. The fruit or tuna make a nice jelly as I'm finding out. My thinking is that, if I don't harvest, the birds or leaf-footed bugs will take care of them.
1
Views
0
🍃 Yes reports
0
🚫 No reports
0
Notes
Recent sightings 0
No sightings yet. Be the first to report!