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Opuntia humifusa Raf. Cactaceae Eastern prickly pear, Indian fig. Distribution: Eastern North America. Stearns (1801) reports 'OPUNTIA a species of cactus. The fruit is called the prickly pear. If eaten it turns the urine and milk in women's breast red'. This is likely to be Opuntia robusta. The ripe fruits are reported edible, raw, and the leaf pads also, either raw or cooked. The fine spines, glochids, cause severe skin irritation so should be wiped off or burnt off prior to cooking and eating. Moerman (1998) reports that O. hemifusa was widely used by Native American tribes for wounds, burns, snakebite, warts (fruit), and as a mordant for dyes used on leather. Widely used, with the spines removed, as a famine food, and dried for winter use. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Opuntia humifusa Raf. Cactaceae Eastern prickly pear, Indian fig. Distribution: Eastern North America. Stearns (1801) reports 'OPUNTIA a species of cactus. The fruit is called the prickly pear. If eaten it turns the urine and milk in women's breast red'. This is likely to be Opuntia robusta. The ripe fruits are reported edible, raw, and the leaf pads also, either raw or cooked. The fine spines, glochids, cause severe skin irritation so should be wiped off or burnt off prior to cooking and eating. Moerman (1998) reports that O. hemifusa was widely used by Native American tribes for wounds, burns, snakebite, warts (fruit), and as a mordant for dyes used on leather. Widely used, with the spines removed, as a famine food, and dried for winter use. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Pictures
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Prickly pear cactus (Opuntia species): stem and flowers. Aquatint, c.1823.
Date: 4 June 1823Reference: 20400i- Books
Spanish red : an ethnogeographical study of cochineal and the Opuntia cactus / R.A. Donkin.
Donkin, R. A.Date: 1977- Pictures
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A prickly pear (Opuntia species): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1800, after J. Ihle.
Ihle, Johann-Eberhard, 1727-1814.Date: 23 June 1800Reference: 25384i- Books
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Five letters to Sir Joseph Banks Baronet President of the Royal Society, on the subject of cochineal insects, discovered at Madras, by James Anderson M.D. With a copper plate engraving annexed, of the different insects, mentioned in the Letters, from the Drawings of Baron Reichel. Also an engraving of the Opuntia major spinulis obtusus mollibus, & innocentibus, and the Plan of a Nopalry in the Bishoprick of Guaxaca in the Kingdom of Mexico, Extracted from the Second Volume of Sir Hans Sloane's History of Jamaica, for the use of Country Gentlemen who may be disposed to make Plantations, and are not in possession of that Work.
Anderson, James, 1738-1809.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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An eleventh letter to Sir Joseph Banks Baronet President of the Royal Society, on the Subject of Cochineal Insects, discovered at Madras, By James Anderson M. D. With a Copper Plate Engraving Annexed, of the different Insects mentioned in the Letters, from the Drawings of Baron Reichel. Also an Engraving of the Opuntia Major Spinulis obtusis mollibus, & innocentibus, and the Plan of a Nopalry in the Bishoprick of Guaxaca in the Kingdom of Mexico, Extracted from the Second Volume of Sir Hans Sloane's History of Jamaica, for the use of Country Gentlemen who may be disposed to make Plantations, and are not in possession of that Work.
Anderson, James, 1738-1809.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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A seventh, eighth and ninth letter to Sir Joseph Banks Baronet President of the Royal Society, on the Subject of Cochineal Insects, discovered at Madras, By James Anderson M. D. With a Copper Plate Engraving Annexed, of the different Insects mentioned in the Letters, from the Drawings of Baron Reichel. Also an Engraving of the Opuntia Major Spinulis obtusis mollibus, & innocentibus, and the Plan of a Nopalry in the Bishoprick of Guaxaca in the Kingdom of Mexico, Extracted from the Second Volume of Sir Hans Sloane's History of Jamaica, for the use of Country Gentlemen who may be disposed to make Plantations, and are not in possession of that Work.
Anderson, James, 1738-1809.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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A tenth letter to Sir Joseph Banks Baronet President of the Royal Society, on the Subject of Cochineal Insects, discovered at Madras, By James Anderson M. D. With a Copper Plate Engraving Annexed, of the different Insects mentioned in the Letters, from the Drawings of Baron Reichel. Also an Engraving of the Opuntia Major Spinulis obtusis mollibus, & innocentibus, and the Plan of a Nopalry in the Bishoprick of Guaxaca in the Kingdom of Mexico, Extracted from the Second Volume of Sir Hans Sloane's History of Jamaica, for the use of Country Gentlemen who may be disposed to make Plantations, and are not in possession of that Work.
Anderson, James, 1738-1809.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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A sixth letter to Sir Joseph Banks Baronet President of the Royal Society, on the Subject of Cochineal Insects, discovered at Madras, By James Anderson M. D. With a Copper Plate Engraving Annexed, of the different Insects, mentioned in the Letters, from the Drawings of Baron Reichel. Also an Engraving of the Opuntia Major Spinulis obtusis mollibus, & innocentibus, and the Plan of a Nopalry in the Bishoprick of Guaxaca in the Kingdom of Mexico, Extracted from the Second Volume of Sir Hans Sloane's History of Jamaica, for the use of Country Gentlemen who may be disposed to make Plantations, and are not in possession of that Work.
Anderson, James, 1738-1809.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Pictures
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Seven British garden plants, including a rhododendron: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
Date: 1834Reference: 27445i- Pictures
Canary Islands: a cactus plant in Las Palmas. Photograph by Prof. Potter, 1905.
British Association for the Advancement of Science.Date: 1905Reference: 534416iPart of: British Association for the Advancement of Science- Digital Images
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T. Green, The universal herbal
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Five large cacti and a sweet potato plant (Ipomoea batatas) in a tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.
Date: [1671]Reference: 24651i