Prickly pear is native to the Americas and has been introduced worldwide. It was historically a vital seasonal food for the ...

If you're looking to broaden your fruit horizons beyond the quotidien, consider the many ways to eat prickly pears. Also known as cactus pear, this delectable desert fruit grows on shrub-size ...

The prickly pear cactus is a remarkably resilient plant that can thrive in arid and desert regions, and survive in low-water ...

Prickly pear cactus grows in hot, sunny climates, like the southwest U.S. and Mexico. It is considered a healthy part of the Mexican diet. People eat the fruit of the prickly pear cactus.

However, research is limited. The fruit of the nopal cactus is the prickly pear, and its Latin name is Opuntia ficus or Opuntia ficus-indica. People can eat both the cactus leaves and the fruit.

and the fruit is made of nickel sulfide. This design allowed for more surface area, which was a boon for the lab. “We could enhance electron mobility with that prickly pear cactus structure ...

While Thomson’s Lemitar crop in Southern New Mexico came early, in the East Mountains, a prickly pear jelly maker said her bumper crop is in late bloom. “The fruit is falling off the cactus ...

"It's delicious" We are at the annual New Mexico Prickly Pear Festival with vendors selling mocktails, syrups, jams and more, all made from the ruby fruit clustered on cactus across the Southwest ...