All About This Sweet Fruit Nopales are the pads or leaves of the nopal cactus or the prickly pear (botanical name, Opuntia ficus-indica) and are usually eaten as vegetables; the edible cactus ...

The most common species grown mainly for its nopales is the Opuntia ficus-indica. That's because this particular species has thick, fleshy pads that provide a lot of flesh. It grows quite tall and ...

compressa Macbride, O. ficus-indica (L.) Miller, O. megacantha Salm-Dyck, O. stricta (Haw.) Haworth and O. tomentosa Salm-Dyck, are known hosts of the cactus moth. /// Los cactus del género Opuntia ...