Purple Prickly Pear Cactus — Image by kenne
It’s not easy being purple
you don’t blend in with
so many other ordinary things
And people tend to stare at you
‘Cause you stand out
Like a sore thumb
next to yellow blossoms.
kenne
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How beautiful and unusual.
An interest to the more common green prickly pear cactus.
Indeed the greens are the only ones I had ever observed. My grandmother actually had a cactus garden with the green variety. That’s where she harvested the fruit to make prickly pear jelly that I had mentioned once before. It’s amazing how something like these can be so lovely yet “so prickly”..:-)
You don’t want to touch the dame things — it’s hard to remove the fine glochoids.