This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Gary visited The Prickly Pear, a succulent ...

Prickly Pear was released as part of the Summer update in Grow a Garden. We've ranked the Prickly Pear as an S-Tier plant on our plant tier list for Grow a Garden, simply because it's a multiple ...

Prickly Pear is a Mythical seed that was introduced to Grow a Garden on June 21, 2025, as part of the Summer Update. If you're looking to add this elusive crop to your garden, I've put together a ...

September 13, 2025: Added new Prickly plants to the list you can grow and donate to the GaG Fall Market event. What are Prickly plants in Grow a Garden? If that's a question you're asking, you're ...

Q: I appear to have a massive infestation of white, cottony cochineal scale on my prickly pear cactus. I can usually get most of it off by hosing, but much of it is hard to reach. Beyond hosing, what ...

News flash: If you’re new to succulents, beware the prickly pear. It is the one cactus that strikes fear into every desert gardener, and now the drought has made these cactuses available far and wide.

Opuntia, the prickly pear cactus, originated in South America, moved into the valleys of the Andes and then north into Mexico and North America. In Southern California, opuntia grows in the coastal ...

Prickly pear cactuses are so common in Southern California that they blend into the background, even now when the fruit, or tunas, are turning red-purple and dropping off. For the Santa Rita variety ...

The dazzling white blooms of saguaros and showy yellow palo verde trees get lots of attention at this time of year — but the often underrated blooms of cholla and prickly pear cacti are putting on ...

Analysis of chromosome number variation among species of a North American group of prickly pear cacti showed that the most widespread species encountered are of hybrid origin. Those widespread species ...