Two poorly placed cacti more than 50 years ago have turned into a full-scale invasion. It's prompting calls for people to ...

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

So, he tried making it with freshly sprouted prickly pears, or "uchiwa saboten" (hand fan cactus) in Japanese. Diners no longer had to deal with tough cactus fibers. Instead, the dish boasted a ...

Have you ever eaten prickly pear fruit? As it turns out, this weird-sounding fruit is a decent source of magnesium, and may ...

If you're looking to broaden your fruit horizons beyond the quotidien, consider the many ways to eat prickly pears. Also known as cactus pear, this delectable desert fruit grows on shrub-size ...

The family is both interesting and challenging because of its varied morphology, adaptations to the environment, and reproductive systems. Of the groups within the cactus family, the opuntias are one ...

The Gila woodpecker nests inside the stem of the saguaro cactus where the temperature inside can be up to 30ºC (86ºF) cooler than outside. The prickly pear cactus has a big network of shallow ...

The signature Nike swoosh features a depiction of a prickly cactus, but that’s about the only place you’ll find spikes on this shoe. This limited-edition golf shoe from Nike is actually spikel ...

Mexican officials say they arrested a man accused of trying to smuggle 32 kilograms of fentanyl, worth over $6 million.

An curved arrow pointing right. Cochineals are tiny bugs that live on prickly pear cactuses. The acid in their guts makes a red dye used in textiles, cosmetics, and foods like M&Ms and Yoplait yogurt.