Prickly pear cactuses are so common in Southern California that they blend into the background, even now when the fruit, or tunas, are turning red-purple and dropping off. For the Santa Rita ...

Along this same line, placement of the Santa Rita Prickly Pear, or any cactus for that matter, on the perimeter of your property can dissuade invaders from entry. Mealy bugs, spider mites and ...

Santa Rita Prickly Pear Pretty up your home landscape with Santa Rita prickly pear (Opuntia santa-rita), provided the winter ...

The prickly pear cactus is probably the most identifiable plant ... One of the better known is the Santa Rita prickly pear (O. santa-rita), which is a beautiful purple color.

Some call them nopales or nopalitos. To others, they’re known more exotically as barbary figs or figue d’Inde. Academics, on the other hand, commonly refer to them by their genus, ...

SANTA CRUZ — Biting into the freshly cut fleshy pads of the nopal — or prickly pear cactus — one”s mouth fills with a fusion of citrus and cucumber. When cooked, nopales are tender and ...

Once completed, Garcia tossed it into a burlap sack and continued. It was just 03:00 and she had only three more hours until the truck arrived at her family's small ranch to collect her precious ...