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 ...

Black spots on prickly pear leaves. By Peter L. Warren Special to the Arizona Daily Star May 23, 2016 May 23, 2016 Updated Aug ... We have a lot of prickly pear cactus in the yard.

A staple throughout the Southwest, this desert fruit adds flavor and color to cocktails, salads, salsas, desserts, and more.

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.

The resulting chunks were then cooked down in a mash tun to a thick, greenish-black liquid, which they fermented and distilled. Dry Land co-owner Marc Staats with a prickly pear cactus. Photo courtesy ...

Texas’ state plant, the prickly pear cactus, is being devoured by invasive caterpillars. The red larvae with black spots are eating a state icon, codified as a “hearty and beautiful denizen of ...

What it is: Prickly pear cactus pads, also known as nopales (singular: nopal), are commonly consumed as a vegetable in Mexico and Central America.The cactus pads—the flat “paddles” that grow from the ...