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https://visitsicily.altrama.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Pala-cavasenna.jpg14712017The Sicilian prickly pear. The history of opuntia ficus indica, the botanical name for the prickly pear, goes back to the fifteenth century, when it was imported into Sicily from South Central America.