The spines of the Barrel cactus were used by local people for fishing hooks. Look at a cactus or a succulent. It is a true cactus if it has a little ring of hair or fluff where the spines come out ...
The Peruvian apple cactus (Cereus repandus) is said to taste like sugarcane, with a consistency like shaved ice. The Southwest native fishhook barrel cactus (Echinocactus wislizeni) has fruit that ...
Oil markets are nervous. Last week crude prices rose by 10%, to $78 a barrel, their biggest weekly gain in almost two years (see chart). As we published this, they were bobbing around $77.