#Nopal

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I tried to cut of a slice of cactus to make nopales and despite being extremely careful I ended up with a lot of cactus spines in my hand. The sensation of the pricks in my hand stayed after I woke up.

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Chaotic Draw Along card deck prompts (easy mode): Cactus, Moist

I like cactus :)

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------------------------ Also, I made this in like an hour/ hour and a half? Who am I? I think I'm finally getting comfortable with Fire Alpaca brushes and am not wasting too much time figuring out what does what.

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Opuntia engelmannii / Desert Prickly Pear at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

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Maractus Cctus Mexican Loteria Card

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Nopal

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Nopal

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Corazón de cacto

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This vegetables i urgently need in my grocery

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A Prickly Science Saturday

In an act of bio-espionage, the French botanist Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville (1739-1780) snuck into Oaxaca, Mexico in 1777 for the express purpose of illegally gathering cochineal insects, highly valued for the scarlet dye that could be extracted from their scales, along with the nopal, or prickly pear (Opuntia) upon which they feed. He smuggled the insects and cacti to the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) where he succeeded in establishing them. For his exploits, he was elevated to royal botanist with an annual stipend, but did not enjoy this station for long as he died two years later at the age of 41.

An account of his adventure and his success with cochineal was published in this two-volume set, Traité de la culture du nopal, in 1787 in Paris, Bordeaux (where it was probably printed), and Cap‑Français, Saint-Domingue (now Cap-Haïtien), with four hand-colored plates by the French botanist and botanical illustrator Guillaume Silvestre Delahaye.

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Nopales, Fairfax, 2021.

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