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Closeup of beautiful yellow flower blossoms, with staggering amounts of pollen, on a prickly pear cactus in early spring,near Tucson, Arizona. Later in the summer, the cactus will produce edible fruit. The prickly pear cactus can live to be well over 20 years old.