Prickly Tuna Flower

Flower from a Tuna cactus. You can eat these. Scrape the thorns off with a knife and you can either filet the paddles like a fish for a drink, or cut them like a pepper and grill them for tacos. The flowers can make a pollen heavy tea, just add honey. The fruit can make a pancake syrup when jelly strained and cooked with sugar.