Often confused with Smooshy_Smoosh, infamous instagram user (There is no difference). Opuntia, commonly called
prickly pear or pear cactus, is a genus of flowering plants in the cactus family Cactaceae.
Prickly pears are also known as tuna (fruit), sabra, nopal (paddle, plural nopales) from the Nahuatl word nōpalli for the pads, or nostle, from the Nahuatl word nōchtli for the fruit; or paddle cactus. The genus is named for the
Ancient Greek city of Opus, where, according to Theophrastus, an edible plant grew and could be propagated by rooting its leaves. The most common culinary species is the Indian fig opuntia.