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- the plant. Many types of prickly pears grow into dense, tangled structures. Like all true cactus species, prickly pears are native only to the Western hemisphere;...32 KB (900 words) - 22:17, 23 February 2010
- 3 Callery Pears in flower Alligator Pear (Persea gratissima) Avocado Pear (Persea gratissima) Balsam Pear (Momordica Charantia) Garlic Pear (Crataeva gymandra)...71 KB (149 words) - 01:53, 5 March 2015
- Pyrus calleryana (redirect from Bradford pear)The Callery pear (Pyrus calleryana) is a species of pear native to China and Vietnam, in the rose family (Rosaceae). Callery pears are deciduous trees...5 KB (606 words) - 02:33, 18 May 2011
- success; yet pears thrive on quinces and also on hawthorns, which are well-marked genera. In nursery practice when pear stocks are not at hand, long pear cions...12 KB (82 words) - 23:47, 8 December 2009
- significant discomfort and sometimes injury. File:Prickly pears.jpg The fruit of prickly pears, commonly called cactus figs, Indian fig or tunaTemplate:Verify...25 KB (2,725 words) - 16:03, 27 October 2007
- Opuntia phaeacantha (redirect from Mojave prickly-pear)this species, include plateau prickly pear, brown-spined prickly pear, Mojave prickly pear, and Kingman prickly pear. This plant, like other Opuntia species...3 KB (234 words) - 22:04, 23 February 2010
- 4-6 m wide, related to apples and pears, and like them has a pome fruit, which is bright golden yellow when mature, pear-shaped, 7-12 cm long and 6-9 cm...20 KB (1,499 words) - 11:15, 12 December 2009
- Sechium edule (redirect from Vegetable-pear)choko, chocho, chow-chow, christophene, mirliton, vegetable pear, starprecianté, and pear squash is an edible plant that belongs to the gourd family Cucurbitaceae...3 KB (273 words) - 00:13, 25 May 2010
- Cylindropuntia imbricata (redirect from Imbricate prickly-pear)photo 1 photo 2 photo 3 Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963 w:Cylindropuntia imbricata. Some of the material on this...3 KB (58 words) - 22:15, 23 February 2010
- Opuntia monacantha (redirect from Cochineal prickly-pear)photo 1 photo 2 photo 3 Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963 w:Opuntia monacantha. Some of the material on this page...1 KB (58 words) - 17:40, 22 February 2010
- first American book devoted exclusively to the pear was Field's, published in 1859. The Japanese type of pears had been brought into the country from two and...139 KB (656 words) - 22:18, 11 January 2010
- Opuntia polyacantha (redirect from Nichol's prickly-pear)photo 1 photo 2 photo 3 Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963 w:Opuntia polyacantha. Some of the material on this page...2 KB (58 words) - 12:18, 23 February 2010
- season (the frs., like the quince, having no true detachable peduncles as do pears and apples), and in having the top of the ovaries not covered by the over-growing...2 KB (56 words) - 18:48, 5 January 2010
- Opuntia humifusa (redirect from Creeping prickly-pear)synonym. The fruit of the Eastern Prickly Pear Eastern Prickly Pear growing wild in northern Illinois Eastern Prickly Pear growing wild in northern Illinois photo...4 KB (281 words) - 22:08, 23 February 2010
- Opuntia engelmannii (redirect from Cow-tongue prickly-pear)cactus", "cow tongue prickly pear", "desert prickly pear", "discus prickly pear", "Engelmann's prickly pear", and "Texas prickly pear" in the US, and "nopal"...4 KB (311 words) - 22:03, 23 February 2010
- Solanum muricatum (redirect from Melon-pear)its origin there are small oblong types with many seeds, while others are pear or heart-shaped with few or many seeds. Still others are round, slightly...13 KB (1,652 words) - 14:27, 30 May 2010
- Pyrus ussuriensis (redirect from Harbin pear)Describe the plant here... If you have a photo of this plant, please upload it! Plus, there may be other photos available for you to add. photo 1 photo...2 KB (84 words) - 16:57, 9 December 2009
- Opuntia macrocentra (redirect from Martin's blunt-spine prickly-pear)photo 1 photo 2 photo 3 Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963 w:Opuntia macrocentra. Some of the material on this page...2 KB (58 words) - 12:02, 23 February 2010
- Opuntia basilaris (redirect from Beaver-tail prickly-pear)photo 1 photo 2 photo 3 Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963 w:Opuntia basilaris. Some of the material on this page...2 KB (58 words) - 17:47, 22 February 2010
- Opuntia fragilis (redirect from Brittle prickly-pear)Opuntia fragilis is a prickly pear cactus known by the common names brittle prickly pear and little prickly pear native to much of North America. It occurs...3 KB (182 words) - 21:27, 23 February 2010