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Wikipedia: Nopales (from the Nahuatl word nōpalli for the pads, or nostle, from the Nahuatl word nōchtli for the fruit) are a vegetable made from the young cladophyll (pad) segments of prickly pear, carefully peeled to remove the spines. These fleshy pads are flat and about hand-sized. They can be purple or green.
![[Spines Start Developing, but some people prefer to eat them at this stage]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Prickly_Pear_5_s.jpg "Spines Start Developing, but some people prefer to eat them at this stage")
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![[A nopal salad.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Nopal11_s.jpg "A nopal salad.")
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![[A nopales merchant at his stand in the Merced market of Mexico City]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Nopal_cacti_in_Merced_s.jpg "A nopales merchant at his stand in the Merced market of Mexico City")
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![["Adult Leaf", These leaves are ready to be eaten]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Prickly_Pear_5half_s.jpg "\"Adult Leaf\", These leaves are ready to be eaten")
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![[Continues to grow, but some people prefer to eat them at this stage]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Prickly_Pear_4half_s.jpg "Continues to grow, but some people prefer to eat them at this stage")
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![[This image shows the bud of a prickly pear leaf.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Prickly_pear_leaf_bud_s.jpg "This image shows the bud of a prickly pear leaf.")
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![[Bud Continues to Grow]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Prickly_Pear_2half_s.jpg "Bud Continues to Grow")
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![[Baby Leaf Grows]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Prickly_Pear_3half_s.jpg "Baby Leaf Grows")
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![[Bud Appears]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Prickly_Pear_2_s.jpg "Bud Appears")
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