Prickly Pear (IMAGE)

American Physical Society

Prickly Pear

Caption

This is a picture of a prickly pear taken in a front yard in Arizona along with an optical profilometry image revealing the cracks in the epidermis.

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Image by Konrad Rykaczewski

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