Those pads are edible
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eltrain123@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
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workerONE@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
This comment needs some disclaimers however! Proper preparation is very important here!
Johnmannesca@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
And delicious!
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
And DO NOT assume you can carefully touch them by just putting your fingers in between the big seemingly sparse spikes coming out of them. It turns out there are little tiny prickers all along the entire surface at high density. They will sink into your hand, are very painful, and very difficult to remove.
vale@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
when I was a kid I had to retrieve a ball that went into a brush of prickly pear. I didn’t see any spikes coming out of it so I thought it was fine.
it hurt so much just to move my hand
Batman@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Meh. It’s prob pic OP’s cacti. Especially taking the grass background. I have these in my yard, from taking overgrowth pickings from my parents yard. I have to cut them back a couple times a year to keep them from over growing their boundaries or getting fat woody trunks.
In general though, yes. Don’t mess with natural flora and fauna.
GluWu@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
These are cultivated nopales. They grow lots of new pads every year for harvest. This is like scratching a picture on a apple.
eltrain123@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Let’s just fuck em all up then, right?
GluWu@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I appreciate your intentions my friend. But I guarantee to you that nopale graffiti is not a problem.
Texas_Hangover@lemy.lol 4 weeks ago
No idiot. Pay attention.
eltrain123@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The plants still take 6 to 7 years to mature. If you think broadcasting that you can fuck up nopales because they produce paddles annually, you’re not promoting an environment that’s sustainable for the nopales.
You do you… but I think it’s not cool to fuck with them.