permaculture

[Barry & Margarita <bmn@iglou.com>]

Ava Devenport wrote:
> 
> Dear Lamb-Vines:
> 
> I'm sorry, I did not mean to make light of the wonderful diversity of
> prickly pear cactus, I actually love the plant and all of it's many
> wonderful virtues.  We had just been discussing previously uses,
> cultivation and 'safe handling', which can be quite tricky and very
> painful.

I recently visited the Ladybird Johnson National Wildflower Center in
Austin, TX and they had a spineless type of Prickly Pear cactus that was
smooth...not even the little red spines.
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