Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images If you're looking to broaden your fruit horizons beyond the quotidien, consider the many ways to eat prickly pears.

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Ever walked past a cactus with broad, flat, ovoid pads with colorful spiky balls growing from them? You just walked past a source of food.

Learn how to propagate a prickly pear cactus in your own yard. Over the centuries–in the course of adapting to harsh soil and climatic conditions–prickly pears (Opuntia) have developed the ability to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 26—Throw a rock in New Mexico and you will most likely hit a prickly pear cactus. The plentiful and beautiful cacti, also ...

Question: I recently bought my first home in Santa Rosa. The backyard has a prickly pear cactus that’s about 6 feet tall. Since it’s the first time I’ve owned one, can you share information about it ...

This succulent can add a little southwest flare to almost any home or garden. Although many varieties have glochids, which are the needle-like spines that can cause an allergic skin reaction for some, ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published in August 2020. We're resharing it in August 2024. We are approaching peak prickly pear season. Called "tunas" in Spanish, the deep, purple-red ...

Like their name implies, prickly pears can be a thorny fruit to deal with. They’re covered in tiny needles, chock-full of hard seeds and their juice can stain everything it touches a shocking magenta ...

The bright-pink fruit of the prickly-pear cactus adds a zing to this dish, inspired by the flora of Death Valley National ...

Seasonal fruit beers will soon start to hit shelves and taps, and I am hoping to see prickly pear beers among them. Last fall, I made my own prickly pear juice — sweet, with a strangely distinctive ...

News flash: If you’re new to succulents, beware the prickly pear. It is the one cactus that strikes fear into every desert gardener, and now the drought has made these cactuses available far and wide.

Cactus fruit, also called prickly pear, may look intimidating at first glance, but beneath its spiky surface, it has a sweet ...