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

The prickly pear cactus (opuntia engelmannii) is a quintessential desert plant, highly useful to many species including our own for food, water, and shelter, and it may have helped save my life once.

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

This weekend, an event highlighted the versatility of a native New Mexico plant. Coming back for the sixth year, the New ...

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.

Throw a rock in New Mexico and you will most likely hit a prickly pear cactus. The plentiful and beautiful cacti, also known as nopales, produce a sweet and bright ruby fruit that sprouts from hearty, ...