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The ornamental pear and its cultivars, Redspire and Aristocrat are the tallest of the flowering trees, reaching up to 50 feet high. Fauer is the smallest at a diminutive 20 feet tall. The Capital variety is in between, reaching up to 35 feet in height.
The pads and the fruit of the prickly pear are edible, but the cactus is also grown as an ornamental plant, because it has pretty flowers that range from orange to yellow to white. To grow a prickly pear, you can buy an established plant, germinate seeds from the fruit, or propagate a new plant from an existing one.