The Wordless Picture Thread

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Well not too much with just 10. Down here these things are everywhere. Some people even eat the pads (Nopalitos). They are good and taste like green beans to me. So, once the flower blooms, it will close up and turn green. It looks like a bulb on top of the cactus. When it turns red at the middle and bottom, that's the time to pick them. Wear gloves! It usually takes about 10 to make a pint of jelly! We make it by the quarts!

With my small patch that is for fun these Nopalitos sound like a more reasonable experiment.

[cudarunner]

With my small patch that is for fun these Nopalitos sound like a more reasonable experiment.

To get the spines off, just take a kitchen knife and scrap them off. Then you can slice them and cook similar to green beans, but some people tell me that they blanch them in boiling water, then pat them dry and slice them or dice them and then fry them in some oil and top with salsa---

Around here you can find them in jars in the Hispanic section at the grocery stores.

[PaulFLUS]

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Yeah, that does look like Opuntia engelmannii Although it's a little hard to tell from one photograph. So many of those Optunias look so much alike. In Florida there are I think 10 different species of them unless one or two have gone extinct. there are a few that have been endangered for a long time. They are a favorite food of the gopher tortoise. The common one Opuntia mesacantha (Eastern prickly pear) is everywhere.

[PaulFLUS]

Hedychium coronarium: butterfly ginger



It didn't really appreciate being moved to this spot but it has decided to bloom every year now after probably 5 or more years of none at all

[Otto]

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[cudarunner]

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[BobH]

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Tomato virus?

Bob

[cudarunner]

Tomato virus?

Bob

Tomato seed sprouting inside itself. My buddy Ski had two that he said had been on the counter for weeks, they were red but stayed hard, finally he cut one and found what looked like worms inside but were the sprouted seeds. The picture I posted was found online but I was at Ski's today to pick up a package and get my ass handed to me shooting pool and the other one had about 3-4 plants coming out of itself and bumps were more were ready to poke through.

I'd heard of it but had never seen it.

Something that I found interesting was that the plants inside the tomato were pretty hard.

[outback]

A horny mater....

[cudarunner]

A horny mater....

Well a 'Wiggly' problem to be sure----