Prickly pear and Christmas cactus are two popular flowering cacti that are often grown as houseplants. And, while their leaves and shape look distinct from each other, the magenta-colored blooms ...

In comparison, prickly pears are native to dry, desert regions of North America and Mexico: 'The prickly pear is a cactus that grows in sandy, poor soils. As this plant grows in arid climates, it ...

This photo taken on May 27, 2025, shows a meal featuring cactus tempura, front left, served at a restaurant in Kasugai, Aichi Prefecture. (Kyodo) NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- Farmers here are cooking up new ...

And every day on his walk he’d pass a prickly pear cactus, come rain, come shine, or a lot of shine. On the day I caught up with Attarzadeh, the temperature topped out at 110 degrees.

In 2021, Wild Hope Farm, which has built up a bit of a following for its prickly pear—a group that includes everyone from local brewers and farmers’ market regulars—sold around $15,000 worth of fruit ...

It was an eastern prickly pear cactus measuring about 100 square feet, loaded with large, purple fig-shaped fruit. Her mother brought her a cutting 20 years ago and it continues to enlarge over ...