Shot taken when Max and I went to Chadwick Lakes. Many prickly pear trees line up along the rubble walls of fields in Malta. They grow wild and serve as a protective wall against intruders and as windbreakers. Their leaves used to be given to goats as fodder. Prickly pears are very sweet and juicy and farmers used to cut them and drive round the country in thir vans selling them to villagers at low prices. This custom has disappeared nowadays but some people still go to the fields and cut a few for themselves or their relatives. We haven’t tasted them this year.
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Very nice picture! I like the color of the fruits. When we lived in Mexico I bought the fruits (if I remember correctly they were still greenish) and made lemonade from it! I've seen the plants here, but not the fruit for sale.
The only time I have come across the name prickly pear is in the song sung in the film Jungle Book, it came to mind immediately. We do learn lots in 365!
Ian