An excursion around Michael Kiessling's cactus nursery

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An excursion around Michael Kiessling's cactus nursery

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There's a fine item about the nursery

https://www.br.de/mediathek/video/abend ... 0007097f1f

on BR TV

from 26:00 to 29:00
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(tu) excellent!
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I understand very little German, was he saying that the taste of a cactus fruit was like a Granny Smith and passionfruit? Did they call it a warzenkaktus? Which would be a Mammillaria?
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I don't think I'd be as hands-on as he is.
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What an exellent report, and yes, I guess its a Mammillaria. I haven't tasted that sepcies,, but my M. prolifera produce loads of fruit, and I always offer them to visitors to taste.
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Not many of the wonderfully grown Opuntias to be seen but very interesting.
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That report is a great find! Fascinating to learn about the taste of Mammillaria fruit, but what amazes me is that he runs his fabulous nursery all by himself...
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