Nopal cactus plant

This plant species has many flowers, and beautiful. Their flower is cup-shaped. Flowers of nopal cactus are tubular at flowers. However, the ovaries are large and covered with thorns. It will flowering in summer. Flowers are white, yellow, orange, red and magenta, but white flowers are rare. Its fruit is round or oval, about 2.5 to 7.5 cm long. Ripe fruit is yellow to red. Which is taken orally, you will need to be carefully peeled, because it has thorns.

Many species of nopal cactus will pollination by itself and falling to the floor for regeneration of new this plant. But it is propagated from the root a cutting, which can grow better seeds. Sometimes it finds that it's a huge like as perennial.

Nopal cactus benefits can be used to relieve dysentery and its extract helps reduce hangover.

The medicinal properties preliminary of the cactus or main species its, can be used to relieve dysentery and its extract helps reduce hangover.