All About This Sweet Fruit Nopales are the pads or leaves of the nopal cactus or the prickly pear (botanical name, Opuntia ...

Related: How to Eat Hatch Chiles, the New Mexico Pepper With a Cult-Like Following The prickly pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) is the fruit of the Opuntia cactus, also called nopal cactus. In ...

His research has focused on understanding developmental and water-deficit stress responses of cactus pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) along with its nutritional potential as a forage and fodder. Ongoing ...

The prickly pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) is the fruit of the Opuntia cactus, also called nopal cactus. In botanical terms, the small, plump prickly pear is, in fact, a berry, measuring 2 to 5 ...