Opuntia Humifusa

Scientific Name: Opuntia humifusa

Common Name: devil's-tongue

Symbol: OPHU

Category: Dicot

Genus: Opuntia

Family: Cactaceae

Family Common Name: Cactus family

Order: Caryophyllales

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subkingdom: Tracheobionta

Kingdom: Plantae

Duration: Perennial

Growth Habit: Shrub

Native Status: L48 (N), CAN (N)

Edible: unknown

Prickly Pear Cactus

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Scientific Name: Opuntia humifusa

Common Name(s): Prickly Pear Cactus

Edible: yes

Medicinal: yes

Parts Used: stem, leaf

crashdive123 24 Aug, 2009	WARNING: Handle with gloves!
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crashdive123 24 Aug, 2009	Note the jointed pads tufted with bristles and showy yellow flowers. Fruit dull red, pulpy. Variable; usually prostrate flowers.
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crashdive123 24 Aug, 2009	Where found: Rocks, dry sandy soil. Minn. to Mass., south to Okla., Florida. Glowers: May-July. Gruit: August - October.
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crashdive123 24 Aug, 2009	Use: Fruit, flour, thickener, cooked vegetable. The fleshy pulp between the skin and seeds of the fruit is excellent chilled; remove the bristles with a damp cloth. The dried seeds can be ground to use as flour or a soup thickener. The tender pads can be peeled, prepared like green beans.
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crashdive123 24 Aug, 2009	Most common eastern cactus. Uses: American Indians poulticed peeled pads on wounds, applied juice of fruits to warts, and drank pad tea for lung ailments. In folk medicine, peeled pads poulticed for rheumatism, juice used for "gravel" (kidney stones), baked pads used for gout, chronic ulcers, and wounds.
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ravenscar
25 Oct, 2010

Grown as ordementals all over the south. many grow in the blackjack forests of east texas, although i have only came across a few that where doing well. Cultivation: leave the original pad intact, and take the pads farthest away from the base pads. plant in areas where you can add support for then they get taller, for easyer access and to maximize your plot. ticks like to rest on the undersides while they digest blood, so watchout.

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ravenscar 25 Oct, 2010	as a rule of thumb, do not use any cactas or cacti that have white sap, although I think the only kinds that do are carribean
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