And it’s all over Colorado,’” Wroe says. “That’s when I realized that we were thinking about it all wrong. Maybe we were missing the obvious.” Mei. Photo courtesy of Dry Land Distillers. That fateful ...

Two years ago, I wrote an article about cochineal scale (Dactylopius coccus), which had infested my prickly pear cactus (Opuntia polyacantha). Shortly after that article was published, ...

Prickly pear cactus is roasted for 48 hours for the smoky, award-winning Cactus spirit. Dry Land Distillers/IG There’s no better example of this than Dry Land's Cactus Spirit.

The fruit of the Opuntia Ficus-Indica might be better known as a prickly pear or tunas in Spanish, but Claudia Villalobos, a sales specialist with the farm, prefers cactus pears. The name sounds less ...

In 1995, Texas lawmakers designated the prickly pear cactus as the official state plant. In 2014, Colorado chose the claret cup cactus as the state cactus at the suggestion of a Girl Scout troop.

Item 1 of 3 A cactus pear fruit, also known as prickly pear, in front of servings of the fruit, at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, Italy, November 24, 2017.

Three arms of my prickly pear cactus broke off during one of this winter's ... I contacted John Jay Harper of Harper's Nurseries and Landscape Co. He is also a contributor on the popular ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Those growing and harvesting prickly pear fruit said 2024 is a banner year for the crop. One local company is trying to get people to stop overlooking the red fruit. Will ...