Prckly Pear Cactus

The cactus likes to decorate for Christmas.

[Mags]

Beautiful fruit and capture! Do you enjoy eating those juicy purple fruits?

[bkb in the city]

Beautiful shot

[LManning (Laura)]

What great colour in the berries.

[Renee Salamon]

Lovely - I’ve never seen berries on cacti before

[Milanie]

how neat looking

[Dione Giorgio]

Beautiful capture. Those spikes are so dangerous especially where there are children around. Are these edible?

[Wylie]

You can keep that one!

[Bucktree]

@sangwann Thank you Dione. Yes, the fruit is edible. People make jams, jellies, smoothies. Deer also eat them in the wild.

[Peter Dulis]

Interesting