Description: The cactus or Thor (G.) has its origin in Mexico. In India, this plant is used as fences of agricultural land. Their fruits are consumed in different countries of the South Europe, Middle East and Africa. However, potential uses of this plant are not known in Quinta da Vitoria. (*)
Provided by: Jaisinh Calanchande e Pedro Calanchande, both Portuguese. The former was born in Mozambique and the latter was born in Portugal.
Present Location: Vitoria Garden Collection (transplanted from Quinta da Vitoria neighborhood in October 2014).
Last revision date: March 2016
(I) Numbering in accordance with the archive of trees and plants identified in the Quinta da Vitoria 2012 and 2013.
(II) Mabberley, David J. Mabberley´s Plant-Book: A Portable Dictionary of Plants, their Classifications and Uses. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
(*)Testimonies of residents gathered in a set of recorded conversations in the neighborhood of Quinta da Vitória and later to your demolition, recorded in Lisbon, Loures and London between July 2012 and October 2014.
(G) Word in Gujarate language
