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, ...

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

Climate change is pushing people to explore — and in cactuses, discover foods that others have known for ages. A curator at ...

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 ...

Two writers locked in the weight of the stories we choose to tell and the poems we choose to compose,” says award-winning ...

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

The fiesta in Albuquerque's South Valley on September 27 and 28 will celebrate the cactus, showcasing ways to prepare the ...

The rarest of the three cactus species native to Minnesota, the ball cactus - also known as the pincushion cactus - is found ...

This is what author Samah Sabawi is asked when she invites her father to be the subject of her PhD research project. This exchange frames the prologue of Cactus Pear For My Beloved (2024) as Sabawi’s ...

Las Tunas history is intertwined with a cactus. It is said that Don Julián Gamboa had a large cattle ranch here and liked to ...