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[0] Opuntia spp PRICKLY PEAR CACTUS [2] Full sun large shrub, very weedy. Will spread easily, some would say too easily. Likes full sun, has prominent display of flowers, most common species in Central Texas has showy yellow blooms in spring, fruits in Late summer/Fall. SPINES. [3] Harvest pads all year, flwrs in spring, frt in fall. Pads can be eaten, juiced, applied as poultice, flwrs as tea, tincture, or glycerite, tunas juiced into wine or jelly [1] 
Stabilizing to blood sugar and soothes to mucous membranes. Helps with burns, diarrhea, and ulcers. Pads, tunas and flowers all used as food and first aid. All sorts of critters love this
Medicinal Plants of Texas: Native Texas Edible and Medicinal Wildscape Article
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