Fruits?
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Cactus flowers seen on my morning walk
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Yep, that's what they're called, and they are literally fruits. All cacti fruit are edible, but some taste better than others. I'm not interested in eating mine if I get any, I'm interested in the seeds.
Nice photos! The flowers are bigger than the cactus! 
Are the fruit like a berry ?
Prickly pear fruits. A berry is a fruit, but I don't really know why a berry is a berry. Fruits contain seeds.
so that is the fruit that comes after the flower?
I'm from MN so fruit trees apples etc flowers then fruit
Excellent!
You were right, that detached pad *did* take root.
You are hereby awarded,
Order of the Thorny Thumb...
I have lots of different cacti, in the ground and in containers, and my fingers often look like that.
Yes, the flower turns into a fruit if it has been successfully fertilized or pollinated.
By the way, those prickly pear fruits in my picture are very edible, although I don't know how to prepare them, and I've never eaten one. My grocery store even sells them when they are in season.
You learn something everyday Cool Thanks
When I was a kid once, this friend of mine told me how tasty these things were. We picked a bunch of them from someone’s front yard and we ate them and the fruit is delicious. We had this slow motion realization that our mouths and throats felt like pincushions. We had hundreds of these things stuck inside our mouths with no way to remove them, it took weeks for them to go away and it was very painful. We didn’t know, we ate them like they were apples.
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Lessons learned the hard way are never forgotten.
Pretty rough entrance how was the exit?
I’m guessing it must’ve been ok. I don’t have any nightmares from that!
When I was in Idaho we had this drink at the NCO club that was called a "Prairie Fire." Was made from 1 shot of tobasco sauce and 1 shot of tequila. Burned like the dickens going down. The next day....Lessons learned the hard way are never forgotten.
Pretty rough entrance how was the exit?
I remember a drink something like that except we chased it with a spoonful of Ice Cream.When I was in Idaho we had this drink at the NCO club that was called a "Prairie Fire." Was made from 1 shot of tobasco sauce and 1 shot of tequila. Burned like the dickens going down. The next day....
Next morning you were saying " come on Ice Cream"
