Cactus tuna?

My mom said the prickly pear cactus fruit is called a "tuna." Can anyone verify this? It sounds so weird!

We gathered a big sack full of fruit (or tunas!!) yesterday on our hike to Mont Boron. I couldn't convince any of the kids to come. Teenagers. Sigh. So it was me, my parents, and a young couple they had met recently. He's from Mauritius doing a MBA here and she's a therapist.

Today they came over for lunch, or rather my parents--social butterflies--invited them over :)

The rest of the day was relaxed for me and Dio. Eric took the girls to an OGC Nice game in the late afternoon.

My mom had already finished making a big batch of cactus fruit syrup. We're well stocked with that and marmalade.