The fruit prickly pears produce can easily be mistaken for Christmas cactus flower buds. After all, they are similar colors and shapes. But, you can pay attention to when your plant blooms to spot ...

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 ...

When I think about cactus plants, which isn’t very often, I assume that they are located in Texas, Arizona and New Mexico.

They will be about 4 to 4 1/2 inches long. The cactus also produces a fruit that is called a tuna in Spanish. The prickly pear is a blooming plant and the flowers can be yellow, yellow-orange, or red.

While prickly pear appreciates sandy, rocky soil, it’s fairly tolerant of more mesic, loam or clay-loam soils. Just be sure to use some gloves and tongs to handle the pads. It is a cactus after all!

On my way home from teaching a wild edible class this week, I noticed an unusual plantin full bloom. I have been a fan of this plant since I lived in Florida. Eastern Prickly Pear Cactus or Opuntia ...

The first full official day of summer 2025 hit over the weekend and we know the heat can be brutal. B & B Cactus Farm says it ...

The prickly pear cactus is probably the most identifiable plant (besides the saguaro) ... They flower in the spring, usually by May, and the fruits can be found after July.

Albuquerque prickly pear festival celebrates abundance of the desert The dangerously monikered cactus is a source of joy in the Southwest. Albuquerque celebrates with music and yummy opuntia treats.

In 2021, Wild Hope Farm, which has built up a bit of a following for its prickly pear—a group that includes everyone from local brewers and farmers’ market regulars—sold around $15,000 worth of fruit ...

BIG BAY, MI – An ecology researcher found what may become the first confirmed example of eastern prickly pear cactus in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, discovered among the highest elevations in ...