A distinctive feature of the mountains of Guizhou, a province in southwest China, is the Guizhou cactus pear or Rosa roxburghii Tratt. Covering 140,000 hectares of the province, and with a bright ...
We talk a lot about crops such as corn, soybeans and wheat, but could we one day add cactus pear to the list? With its high heat tolerance and low water use (80% less than some traditional crops ...
The use of Nopal cactus supplements has been increasing recently due to the possible health benefits they could provide. The Nopal, also known as the prickly pear cactus, hails from the Americas ...
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 ...
This weekend, cactus were cause for celebration in the New Mexico desert - a very specific, spiny succulent known as prickly pear. As KUNM's Alice Fordham reports, it's delicious. (SOUNDBITE OF ...
"It's delicious" We are at the annual New Mexico Prickly Pear Festival with vendors selling mocktails, syrups, jams and more, all made from the ruby fruit clustered on cactus across the Southwest ...