A staple throughout the Southwest, this desert fruit adds flavor and color to cocktails, salads, salsas, desserts, and more.

Opuntia, commonly known as prickly pear or nopal cactus, is a nutrient-rich plant with a long history of medicinal use.

https://doi.org/10.2307/3496374 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/3496374 The Cactaceae are a diversified group of New World plants with a wide array of evolutionary ...