krusty kritter wrote:
>>From: "Gareth Evans"
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>>I just bought four of these things in my local supemarket. Label says Cactus
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> Fig grown in Mexico."(snip description)
> Prickly pear is a native of north Africa which may have been brought to Spain
> by the Moors and then imported into the New World by the Spanish colonists...
As with chiles, the "migration" goes in the other direction. The
"Prickly Pear" cactus is native to the western hemisphere and was
brought back to the Old World.
Rich