India (Madras Presidency): ripe fruit eaten; green fruit and tender shoots may be cooked in curries. This site is provided to Mr. Freedman by Dr. Jules Janick, Emeritus Professor and Former James ...

Editor's Note: This is Part II of a two-part series on desert gardening. Included in this article is information about the numerous varieties of cacti that were planted in the ...

Thirty-eight-year old Sanjay Chauhan has sourced the extract from Opuntia Vulgaris or prickly pear, a fruit of a xerophytic plant, to pack it in a pill to combat anaemia.

If the moths had made it to the mainland – where some 150 000 ha of cacti are cultivated for fodder, 60 000 ha for production of prickly pear fruit, 10 500 ha for the Opuntia leaf vegetable and ...