Cacti might look like tough, spiky warriors of the plant world — but don’t be fooled. Come monsoon, they turn into total drama queens. One unexpected downpour, ...

Opuntia Spp, also known as prickly pear, is a remarkable desert food that offers both nutritional value and versatility. Harvesting this unique plant requires skill to carefully remove its spines ...

Desenvolvimento da palma Opuntia stricta (Haw.) Haw. (Cactaceae) in vitro em resposta à substituição de nitrato de potássio (P.A.) por fertilizante comercial KNO 3 To reduce costs in the acquisition ...

Have you ever heard of cochineal? And I am not referring to the upscale restaurant in Marfa, Texas, but to the small, scale insect native to our area. This insect lives on nopal, prickly pear ...

Cactus fruit comes from the Opuntia cactus genus that's native to Central America and the drier, desert parts of North America. There are about 90 species of Opuntia in the United States alone ...

Cactus pear fruits are rich sources of nutritional (essential vitamins, amino acids and minerals) and antioxidant compounds (flavonoids, carotenes, betalains, ascorbic acid and quercetin). The fruit ...

Opuntia ficus, better known as the prickly pear. Andrea Ortenzi saw the plant’s potential 20 years ago when working for Telecom Italia in Brazil, where it is widely used as animal feed.

Opuntia gets very beautiful when it's in blossom from May to August. In the summer, this large cactus forms plum-like purple edible fruit. It's quite sweet and tasty but pick the prickly pears wearing ...

One of these new protected areas was the Opuntia Lake Migratory Bird Sanctuary. Located 60 kilometres southwest of Biggar, Saskatchewan, this sanctuary is strategically positioned along a major flyway ...

That's why she and her father, Thomas Laue, named their two new dispensaries Opuntia. A 500-year-old word that later became the scientific label for the prickly pear cactus, opuntia is a plant ...

Nopal (prickly pear cactus) is a plant of the Opuntia ficus indica species and a member of the Cactaceae family. You can find it growing in sandy soil in regions such as the U.S. Southwest, Latin ...