Photo: Wendy Cutler from Vancouver, Canada — CC BY 2.0 · source
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Survives zone 5 through 9
Prickly-pear fruit sweet and seedy; young pads as a vegetable. ⚠ Glochids.
- Hardiness
- Zone 5 to 9
- Habit
- Groundcover
- Edible part
- Seed, Fruit
- Ripens
- Late summer–autumn
- Mature size
- Low/spreading; EXCELLENT in containers
- Light
- Full sun (open-ground desert/glade)
- Soil pH
- 6.5–8.0 (neutral–alkaline, sharp drainage)
- Environment
- Temperate
- Status
- Both wild and cultivated
- Years to fruit
- 2–3 yrs
- Pollination
- Self-fertile