It's understandable why you might have mistaken your prickly pear for a Christmas cactus. Upon first look, they seem the same - both with a succulent-cacti form and orange or pink flowers.

Also called the prickly pear cactus, this genus has large flat pads called cladodes with spiky thorns and hairy spines called ...

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 ...

By Cheryl ConleyLake Creek Nature Preserve Spring is here, and there’s nothing more beautiful than the Texas landscape, where ...

The prickly pear cactus has a big network of shallow roots ... Boerhavia repens is a desert plant which can germinate, grow, produce flowers and ripen seeds in the space of ten days after it ...