Covering 140,000 hectares of the province, and with a bright yellow fruit coated with dense prickles, the Guizhou cactus pear is as unique to China as the giant panda, though far less well known.

Cactus fruit, commonly known as the prickly pear, may come from a frightful shrub but its sweet and nutritious flesh is worth the hassle of extracting it from the thorn-covered plant and then ...

The peanut cactus is a small, clumping cactus with cylindrical stems covered in soft spines. This is another easy-to-care-for ...

Compost, perlite, peat moss, and bark are recommended. Choose a big pot with drainage holes for the dragon fruit cactus. Glazed terracotta or ceramic pots are best. Properly water your dragon fruit ...

National identities are also the source of fierce loyalties and resistances. They elevate individual stories to the weight ...

Last week, I wrote about the prickly pear cactus and how its fruit is a boon to local wildlife and the occasional thirsty ...

where it painstakingly searches for cactus fruit - one of the only sources of moisture around. Whilst filming the amazing Harris’ antelope squirrel performing its extraordinary and comical heat ...

While Hasib Hourani's Rock Flight and Samah Sabawi's Cactus Pear for My Beloved are both books by Australian writers that ...

But the prickly pear and others are now being tested as a delicious fruit crop. Cereus repandus, for example — the Peruvian apple cactus — is being grown successfully in Israel; some say its ...

The dangerously monikered cactus is a source of joy in the Southwest. Albuquerque celebrates with music and yummy opuntia ...

Throw a rock in New Mexico and you will most likely hit a prickly pear cactus. The plentiful and beautiful cacti, also known as nopales, produce a sweet and bright ruby fruit that sprouts from ...