Scientists study puncture performance of cactus spines
Tuesday, November 20, 2018 - 19:30
in Health & Medicine
Beware the jumping cholla, Cylindropuntia fulgida. This shrubby, branching cactus will—if provoked by touching—anchor its splayed spines in the flesh of the offender. The barbed spines grip so tightly that a segment of cactus often breaks off with them, leaving the victim with a prickly problem.