Jürgen Exner wrote:
> "Focus" <focus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> "Allen" <allen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>> A question: the cacus
>>> that we call prickly pear in the US,
>
>> I really don't know if the cactus here grow wild or only by planting
them.
>> These I found on the road side, but they could have been planted.
>
> Cacti are native to the new world only.
>
The prickly pear - dozens of species, but indica is the edible one - was
broguht to the Med hundreds of years ago. It is planted as a hedge as
well as a crop, and the Canaries, Malta, Morocco, Spain, ****tugal,
Italy, Greece and most islands have it in abundance.
I knew it was edible even as a 15-year-old RAF school cadet being sent
on a march across Gozo. We were instructed not to buy any drink, or eat
anything. Of course I bought Coca Cola from a house on the way, and I
picked and ate ripe prickly pear - or over-ripe prickly pear. I was on
re****t on arrival at the camp because the old woman selling the coke had
been briefed to describe every cadet stopping to buy, and out of action
for the entire day afterwards because of the prickly pear - but they do
taste good!
On topic - I carried an Olympus Pen D2 loaded with Pan F, and my record
was redeemed by filing a set of shots of the trip with the school. But I
was also removed from that school at the same time and never returned.
The pix of ****tugal are just what they should be. I find the abandoned
houses interesting as I'd rather like to rescue one.
David
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