Opuntia ficus-indica
Identification suggestions (from the community or from AI) and the information here may be wrong; this app never confirms that anything is safe to eat. Do not consume wild plants, mushrooms or seafood without expert confirmation. Nothing here is medical advice.
Hair-fine glochids on fruit and pads lodge in the skin, are nearly invisible and itch for days. Do not handle bare-handed.
Ask an adult
Flat racket-shaped fleshy pads joined end to end
Regularly spaced tufts of brown hair-fine glochids on the pads
Fruits set in a row along the upper edge of the pad