In Florida, about nine species of Prickly-Pear can be found. This is one is a spineless prickly pear, the Burbank spineless or Barbary fig ( Opuntia ficus-indica). Instead of long spines, the Barbary fig cactus, like all prickly pears, has glochids. Glochids are tiny, thin, and abundant hairs on a cactus pad that can be even more painful and harder to remove than a typical cactus spine. Flowers are red and the cactus is cold tolerant  as long as you plant it high so water doesn’t pond around it.

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