Eastern Prickly Pear It is known for its

It is known for its slender trunk and long

indirect light and high humidity to thrive indoors

due to chemicals called saponins

wide mounds and thrives in full sun in dry

Eastern Prickly Pear It is known for itsEastern Prickly Pear Cactus (Opuntia humifusa) is the only cactus that is widespread in the eastern United States. It forms in low, wide mounds and thrives in full sun in dry, sandy, well drained soil. The flat, fleshy, green pads are covered with barbed thistles, and in the spring it produces bright yellow flowers often with red centers. Eastern Prickly Pear Cactus produces a reddish fruit after flowering, and the fruit, along with most parts of the