Plants such as prickly pear tend to be invisible to those who do not use them, or at least on the peripheries of people's consciousness. This book explains why they were not peripheral to many people ...

Opuntia, aka Prickly Pear, is a genus of the Cactus family with over 200 species mostly native to the Americas. Our prickly North Carolina native, Eastern prickly pear - Opuntia humifusa - is a ...