Looking like shaved watermelon…..a beautiful resemblance to a red/orange rose from the prickly pear cactus in Arizona. The plant pads has been made into a salsa, (after taking off the thorns mind you…lol…or scrambled with other items for consumption to lower glucose levels, many healing properties are still being studied. I personaly have scrambled it with lean burger and green chile and wrapped into a tortilla burito have seen my glucose drop significantly.