What type of plant is a prickly pear?

its a cactus
What type of plant is a prickly pear?
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Reply:It is a cactus called scientifically as Opuntia = Read further =



Opuntia is a genus in the cactus family, Cactaceae.



There are about 200 species distributed throughout most of the Americas.



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Scientific classification

Kingdom: Plantae

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Order: Caryophyllales

Family: Cactaceae

Subfamily: Opuntioideae

Tribe: Opuntieae

Genus: Opuntia



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Nopales are a vegetable made from the young stem segments of prickly pear, carefully peeled to remove the spines.



They are particularly common in their native Mexico.



Farmed nopales are most often of the species Opuntia ficus-indica, although the pads of almost all Opuntia species are edible.



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From = A Botanist
Reply:It's a cactus, the kind with the flat, oval shaped leaves. Some species of this, prepared correctly, are actually pretty good eating.
Reply:Commonly called fan leaf cactus.
Reply:It is a cactus, or succulent
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