I sat by the side of the road with the Mexican women peeling prickly pear fruit in the shadow of Teotihuacan. We waited as my Mexican cousins bargained for relics with the local farmers who dug them ...

Prickly pear fruit is edible, and tasty at that! However, it's covered in dangerous spines, so you need to know the ...

Despite its unusual appearance, cactus fruit is delicious and loaded with nutrients. Also known as prickly pear, tuna fruit, or cactus pear, it has a naturally sweet flavor and can be used in various ...

Question: I would love to plant op-a-la-ah (not sure of spelling) cactus, the kind that looks like Mickey Mouse ears and grows red cactus pears, also known as prickly pears. Several of my neighbors ...

Despite its unusual appearance, cactus fruit is delicious and loaded with nutrients. Also known as prickly pear, tuna fruit, or cactus pear, it has a naturally sweet flavor and can be used in various ...

In my official job as Associate Public Relations Director, Human and Animal, I stay close to home on the grounds around here. That doesn't mean I don't know what's going on in the neighborhood. One of ...

Cactus plants: In my mind’s eye, I see them as globular or columnar, living in deserts and firmly set in the ground. But with more than 2,000 species in the Americas, it’s not surprising there are ...

Imagine a cactus that grows rapidly in ordinary garden soil and whose luscious fruit sells at the supermarket for $4.99 per pound. Would you want to try to grow that cactus? I recently wrote about ...