Prickly Pear facts
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Wisconsin has an area with very sandy soil which is able to support a desert like environment including prickly pear cactus and a few species of lizard.
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There is a monument in Dalby, Queensland commemorating a species of moth that eradicated the invasive Prickly Pear Cactus that had spread across 15000 square miles of Australia.
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There are over 60 different species of cactus found in Big Bend National Park including prickly pears, pitayas, and claretcups.
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Plants that are found in Arches National Park include black brush, Utah juniper, cheat grass, sand verbena, prickly pear cactus, evening primrose, pinyon pine, yucca, cliff rose, Mormon tea, and stemless woollybase.
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Trees found growing in the park vary widely because of the 6000 feet of vertical change which provides for many plant zones. Plants and trees found in the park include saltgrass, prickly pear, pinyon pine, juniper, Douglas fir, white fir, aspen, ponderosa pine, and spruce, among many others.
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Collared peccary is an omnivore, but its diet is mostly based on plants. It likes to eat seed, prickly pears, berries, beans, tubers and root. Vegetarian diet is occasionally supplemented with insects, lizards and carrion.
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Javelina is an omnivore. It eats fruit, berries, nuts, roots and tubers. Prickly pear (type of cactus) is its favorite food. Javelina also occasionally consumes lizards, rodents and dead birds.
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Leopard tortoise is a herbivore. Its diet is based on the grass, mushroom, fruit, succulent plants and prickly pear cactus.
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There is a species of prickly pear cactus native to Ohio
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There is a cactus native to Ohio - the prickly pear cactus.
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In the desert regions of Zion National Park plants such as sagebrush, rabbitbrush, Indian paintbrush, and prickly pear cactus are commonly found.
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A Japanese mariner refueling at a California oil field in the 1930's fell into a prickly pear cactus and busted his ass. The oilmen laughed at him... he returned in 1942 as a submarine captain to bombard the same oil field.
