Covering 140,000 hectares of the province, and with a bright yellow fruit coated with dense prickles, the Guizhou cactus pear is as unique to China as the giant panda, though far less well known.

“Cactus pear productivity is on par ... “That’s the benefit of this crop,” Cushman says. “You’ve harvested the fruit and the pads for food, then you have this large amount of biomass ...

People also eat the fruit, prickly pear cactus fruit, referred to as tuna in Spanish ... Learn more about why nopal is nutritious, its health benefits, and how to consume it. Nopal is highly ...

Prickly Pear Has Surprisingly Little In Common With Dragon Fruit Prickly pear, meanwhile, grows off a nopal cactus or paddle ...