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  • From: "tanis cuff" <tanistanis@hotmail.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Opuntia?
  • Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 12:58:21 +0000

S.WI, more like z4, prickly pear is hardy here, more likely to die from damp/diseases and competition from grasses than from cold tenderness. As you can imagine, under these conditions fruiting isn't common; I got to try ONE once. As I recall, it was tastey but I didn't pine for more, and anyway on this topic we get into taste-bud and cultivar differences. Didn't get sick.


----Original Message Follows----
From: "Scott >
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Opuntia?
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 07:14:34 -0500

Does anyone know if the cold hardy varieties are edible? If not is it that they are not palatable or are they poisonous? I've got one growing here in zone 5 that I got a start from a neighbor a while back. It has smaller fruits than those I've seen in the store.


-----Original Message-----
From: Lon ]
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 6:03 PM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Opuntia?

There isn't a group for it, partly because the ones that exist were developed by Luther Burbank and they aren't cold hardy. 25 F will damage or kill many of them. The California Rare Fruit Growers http://www.crfg.org does work with them, and there are a number of people working with several types of edible cactus on Leo Manuel's Rare Fruit newsletter. Look for Pitaya. Leo's e-mail to get on the mailing list is: "Leo Manuel" <leom@rarefruit.com>


From: william anderson
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Opuntia?

hello. I'm interested in finding a source of spineless prickly pear. I've heard that someone has developed such a variety. Thanks.


Jacquelyn Kuehn <jakuehn@mail.yourinter.net> wrote:

Is anyone either involved in an Opuntia (prickly pear) interest group,
or just plain interested? I had a request for the name of the
chairperson of that interest group, and I don't see any record of such a
group.

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