Fighting the Prickly Pear Cactus
A memorial to the fight against this insidious pest plant that nearly engukfed a lot of Australia.
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| Camera | iphone 11 |
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| Camera | iphone 11 |
I live in the US Mountain West. Prickly pear cactus has thorns, but I never thought of it is a pest.
It is amazing how people create huge problems when they take seemingly innocuous plants out of one ecosystem and place the plant in other ecosystems.
While I see the prickly pear as a just a fun cactus, our mountainsides are being destroyed by plants that people transplanted from around the world.
Totally agree! 👍