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  • From: Hilborn.E@epamail.epa.gov
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Opuntia humifusa
  • Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 19:20:05 -0400

I havn't grown it, although I have eaten it.  As I recall it ripens midsummer in the southeast.

 

When it is a deep red color it can be eaten.  But there is an important element to eating this fruit- the small, fine thorns on the surface of the fruit must be removed or they will embed in your flesh. They are so fine they are difficult to remove.

 

I was taught to burn the spines off the fruit with a match.  It worked. I don't know if ther are other effective methods.

 

I don't grow the fruit because of the thorns, I found the fruit juicy but uninteresting- watery and mildly sweet.

 

Betsy Hilborn

7a NC




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