Prickly pear is sweet and delicious, but you can only eat it if you can manage to cut it safely and remove its spikes. Here's how to do make it happen.

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 ...

Engelmann’s prickly pear, along with 17 other prickly pear species, is found in all of our southwest deserts — Mojave, Great Basin, Sonoran and Chihuahuan.

Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear At five o’clock in the morning. - T. S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men,” 1925 ...

Stop by on Jan. 20 to buy your living reminder to be less prickly in the New Year for a pot on the patio or a great addition to a sunny, well-drained spot in your landscape.

To the amazement of most, the eastern prickly pear cactus is an Illinois native plant. Ryan Pankau/ UI Extension ...

The Prickly Pear Cactus blooms in Wisconsin offer a unique seasonal experience for nature lovers in Wisconsin. While often overlooked, these flowers thrive in the sandy soils of the Wisconsin River ...