When transplanting prickly pear cactus, handle the plant from the root ball, if possible, and wrap the main stem and paddles in paper. Use gloves that can be discarded.

Prickly pear cactus species (Opuntia spp.) are indigenious to the Americas, varying in height from 1 to 10 feet with yellow to red blooms.

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. It's ...

Opuntia ficus-indica, the most widely cultivated species of prickly pear cactus, in fruit (the pears are orange) at Walnut Creek’s Ruth Bancroft Garden. Photo by Brian Kemble.

For now, a flat jointed, distinctly spiny cactus, having a yellow flower with a reddish base, is a desert prickly-pear . . . probably. In our area, look for the desert prickly-pear above 3,500 ...

A night of holiday-party drinking doesn't have to be painful the next morning, thanks to a common desert plant. The fruit of the prickly pear cactus is a lean, mean hangover-fighting machine ...

"Prickly pear cactus fruit have lightly citric, sweet and delicate flavor profiles," says Tamara Stanger, chef at Helio Basin Brewing Company, where the ingredient is used in chimichurri, pavlova ...

The first thing to know is what the heck prickly pears actually are. They go by a slew of names including cactus pear, tuna, Indian fig, Barbary fig, xoconostle (which is a sour variety) and more ...

A prickly pear is also called a cactus fruit because they grow on cacti. Prickly pears come in a wide variety of colors but you’ll usually see the deep pink or purple color when getting drinks ...