Opuntia

Another kind of opuntia fruit, this one tastes sour and is used as a seasoning in certain meat stews, especially mole de olla. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It's hard to tell because of the lush growth, but this is actually wall planted with all sorts of horticultural delights: even an opuntia! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Known in English as the "prickly pear" cactus, this member of the opuntia genus produces the vegetable called nopal, sometimes referred to as "cactus paddles" in the Southwestern United States, and the fruit called tuna. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Coastal wetlands are also characteristic of this ecoregion, and near the first foothills of the western range there are some arid, rocky scrublands with abrupt relief, where columnar, candelabra and opuntia cacti typically grow. ❋ Unknown (2008)

His graying mustache bristled like the spine needles of the opuntia cactus. ❋ Helena María Viramontes (2007)

Turtle looked up at the darkness between the wire lines and clothespins and observed the shadow play of the beavertail opuntia cactus on the sheets and thought perhaps they had, the nopal and she, something in common. ❋ Helena María Viramontes (2007)

Halimeda opuntia and Dictyota species occur on the fore reef and the intermediate reef. ❋ Unknown (2007)

LERICI, C.R. and CAPELLA, P. (1976) Caratteri chimici del fico d’lndia (Cactus opuntia). ❋ Unknown (1953)

The cochineal is imported from Spain, although the opuntia, or the tree that nourishes the cochineal-fly, abounds in many of the provinces of West Barbary, particularly in the province of Suse. ❋ Abd Salam Shabeeny (N/A)

The most striking we met with were the prickly pear (cactus opuntia), the órgano, the night-blowing cereus, the various mamillarias -- dome-shaped mounds covered with thorns, varying in diameter from an inch to six or eight feet -- and the greybeard, _el viejo, _ "the old man," as our guide called them, upright pillars like street-posts, and covered with grey wool-like filaments. ❋ Edward Burnett Tylor (N/A)

Plaisters of gum ammoniac, and the juice of the leaves of the _opuntia_, or _kermuse ensarrah_, _i. e._ prickly pear, were universally applied to the carbuncles, as well as to the buboes, which quickly brought them to suppuration: many of the people of property took copious draughts of coffee and Peruvian bark. ❋ Abd Salam Shabeeny (N/A)

Orange groves embowering sheltered nooks in the environs of the town, and hedges of the Indian fig (_cactus opuntia_), betokened the warmth of this southern shore; and, as we advanced, the rank growth of vegetation on the flats realised all we had heard of the teeming richness of the _littorale_. ❋ Thomas Forester (N/A)

When this process is duly effected, the cactus opuntia, or prickly pear, is planted, which hastens the desired event, and has the power to break up the lava, and render it fit for productive purposes. ❋ Various (N/A)

* _Amphispiza bilineata opuntia_ Burleigh and Lowery. ❋ Emil K. Urban (N/A)

The center of the State is occupied by intergrades between _A.b. bilineata_, _opuntia_, and _grisea_. ❋ Emil K. Urban (N/A)

Sparrows from the Sierra del Carmen "resembles most the race _opuntia_ of western Texas ... but shows some intergradation toward _grisea_ of southern Coahuila and toward _A.b. bilineata_ of eastern Coahuila." ❋ Emil K. Urban (N/A)

Nevertheless, the size (8 mm.) of the white spot on the lateral tail feather of No. 32161 indicates intergradation with _A.b. opuntia_. ❋ Emil K. Urban (N/A)

The fruit of the opuntia, or prickly-pear cactus, which the Apache call ❋ Edward S. Curtis (1910)