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When prickly pear blooms, it produces pink or yellow flowers which eventually turn into dark pink fruit.
It produces blooms that are pink, red, white, purple or orange.
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These flowers will leave behind fruit.
Prickly pears can soar to eight feet tall and wide when grown outdoors.
Like you would expect from its name, the Christmas cactus typically blooms around the holidays.
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You may start to see blooms as early as November, and they’ll continue through January.
Meanwhile, the prickly pear blooms late spring through early summer.
Growing Requirements
Prickly pear is adesert plantthat loves sunny, dry conditions.
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Give it full sun or six hours of direct sunlight daily.
confirm the soil dries out completely between watering and never let the soil become soaked with water.
It does well with acidic, sandy cactus mix soil or general potting soil with perlite.
It should also be allowed to dry out between watering.
Often, you’ll find it growing in a clump-like behavior.
It has cascading flat green leaves that are segmented from top of the stem to bottom.
