The prickly pear cactus (opuntia engelmannii) is a quintessential desert plant, highly useful to many species including our ...

Enchanted Rock State Natural Area asks the public to stop cutting out shapes from native prickly pear cacti pads.

The rarest of the three cactus species native to Minnesota, the ball cactus - also known as the pincushion cactus - is found ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – This weekend, an event highlighted the versatility of a native New Mexico plant. Coming back for the sixth year, the New Mexico Prickly Pear Festival was held at the ...

Albuquerque prickly pear festival celebrates abundance of the ... There are many edible plants adapted to arid climates. Among them are prickly pears, or opuntia, of which there are hundreds ...

Many came; people from all over who used to say: “I'm going there, to the las Tunas the farm (prickly pear), to buy cattle.” ...

The dangerously monikered cactus is a source of joy in the Southwest. Albuquerque celebrates with music and yummy opuntia ...

Across the way, Karen Bedell of Sonoran Scavengers is selling not just prickly pear products but mesquite flour, wolfberry jam and candied barrel cactus. Most of it is gathered from wild plants.