except tiny! these are only about 1/4" long!sort of like a porcupine
I just pulled them with my fingers, several broke off leaving the barb under the skin. I've never seen any terrible side effects. I guess the body eventually breaks them down? I washed her down with warm water at home and found some more that I could pull out and could feel the nubs of some that broke off.Man, how do you get the barbs out…what’s the chances of infection?
Those are "spider-like" burrs are what come off the plant, made to stick into the victim from one side then the other side sticks into you when you try to pull it off! all those other little pieces are what stuck in without the whole burr. Cholla (pronounced Choy-ah) is seriously a bad cactus to run into.Some of those look like the little sand burrs that we used to have












God I miss Clarke.....






