{"id":1505,"date":"2014-11-01T00:28:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T04:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2015-06-21T01:00:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T05:00:08","slug":"opuntia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2014\/11\/01\/opuntia\/","title":{"rendered":"Opuntia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Opuntia<\/em> is the name of a genus of edible cactuses originally from the Americas which are now grown world wide both as ornamental plants and as a food source.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1507\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Opuntia.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1507\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Opuntia.jpg\" alt=\"Opuntia.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1507\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Opuntia.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Opuntia-150x150.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Opuntia-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opuntia cactus planted on the grounds of the <a href=\"\/places\/canada\/ontario\/toronto\/toronto-zoo\/\" title=\"Toronto Zoo\">Toronto Zoo<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The entire opuntia plant is edible, the green parts are usually sold in North America under the name nopales while the fruits are known as prickly pears.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Opuntia-fruit-slice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Opuntia-fruit-slice.jpg\" alt=\"Opuntia fruit slice.\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1510\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Opuntia-fruit-slice.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Opuntia-fruit-slice-150x150.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Opuntia-fruit-slice-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have never had the opuntia greens since I have no idea how to prepare them, and they are not particularly popular here in <a href=\"\/places\/canada\/ontario\/toronto\/\" title=\"Toronto\">Toronto<\/a>. The fruit is readily available in grocery stores when it is in season and I do like prickly pears in spite of the fact that they have tiny needles all over them and they make peeling them literally a pain.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1509\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Opuntia-fruit-in-store.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1509\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Opuntia-fruit-in-store.jpg\" alt=\"Prickly pears.\" width=\"550\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1509\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Opuntia-fruit-in-store.jpg 550w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Opuntia-fruit-in-store-275x300.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prickly pears being sold in a grocery store in <a href=\"\/places\/canada\/ontario\/toronto\/\" title=\"Toronto\">Toronto<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is not just us humans who enjoy eating opuntia cactuses, if you are a regular reader of thios blog and followed the links to the instructions how to care for most of the land <a href=\"\/tag\/turtle\/\" title=\"Tortoise\">tortoises<\/a> mentioned on this blog, you will find that a recurring suggestion is to provide them with opuntia as part of their diet.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Opuntia-buds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Opuntia-buds.jpg\" alt=\"Opuntia.\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1508\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Opuntia-buds.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Opuntia-buds-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<h4 class=\"further-readings-title\">Further Readings:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"further-readings\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/opuntiads.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Opuntia Web, the Best Opuntia Website\">Opuntia Web, the Best Opuntia Website<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Opuntia\" title=\"Opuntia\" target=\"_blank\">Opuntia<\/a> on Wikipedia.<br \/>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opuntia is the name of a genus of edible cactuses originally from the Americas which are now grown world wide both as ornamental plants and as a food source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[78,9,22,66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}