Prickly Pear - Opuntia ssp - Organic Heirloom Fruit - 5 seeds Sage to the Levant and Middle-East

to the Levant and Middle-East of Western Asia into Iran

southern Turkey

Flowers spring and summer

They are evergreen shrubs or small trees growing up to 16 m tall

Prickly Pear - Opuntia ssp - Organic Heirloom Fruit - 5 seeds Sage to the Levant and Middle-EastOpuntia, also known as nopales or paddle cactus, is a genus in the cactus family, Cactaceae. Currently, only prickly pears are included in this genus of about 200 species distributed throughout most of the Americas. The fruit of prickly pears, commonly called cactus fruit, cactus fig, Indian fig or tuna in Spanish, is edible, although it has to be peeled carefully to remove the small spines on the outer skin before consumption. If the outer layer is