Half eaten, rosy pink seed pod from the Turks Head cactus.
Many of the Turks Head Cacti here at Harbour Club Villas are flowering and throwing off seed pods like crazy right now. They are providing a feast for our local population of anoles and curly tailed lizards. I haven’t managed to snap a photo of them actually eating one but I keep trying.
This fairly young cactus does not have a pronounced cap as yet but it is producing so many seed pods.
An anole lizard has no problem with the cactus spines as he makes for the seed pods.
The seed pods are shaped more like a fushia coloured pepper elongated at the one end where it grows in the white part of the cap.
Close up of the indentation in the cap left by the seed pod with a curly tailed lizard.
No seed pod but still a fair sized Curly Tailed Lizard and we do have some pretty large ones at the villas.
The seed pods of the Turks Head Cactus provides food for many birds and lizards who injest, fertilize, eliminate the tiny black seed to propagate more cacti.
Marta
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