Bearing the state flower of Arizona, the saguaro cactus remains an essential part of the Sonoran Desert’s identity. The 40-60 foot-tall saguaro and its fruit are great natural resources for both ...

I sat by the side of the road with the Mexican women peeling prickly pear fruit in the shadow of Teotihuacan. We waited as my Mexican cousins bargained for relics with the local farmers who dug them ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Cousins Tanisha Tucker Lohse and Maria Francisco set off from their desert camp around dawn on most early summer days, in search of ripe fruit from the towering saguaro cactus, an ...

The desert prickly-pear, known to botanists as Opuntia phaeacantha, is the Southwest's most widespread and abundant species of cactus. Unlike the giant saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea) that is restricted ...

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While the cactus makes a beautiful natural ornament in the Phoenix area, the wild plant also provides nutritional benefits from its fruits and spiny pads. Some of the cactuses, including the prickly ...

In my official job as Associate Public Relations Director, Human and Animal, I stay close to home on the grounds around here. That doesn't mean I don't know what's going on in the neighborhood. One of ...

A night of holiday-party drinking doesn't have to be painful the next morning, thanks to a common desert plant. The fruit of the prickly pear cactus is a lean, mean hangover-fighting machine. Grown in ...

In the courtyard of the historic Gutiérrez Hubbell House in Albuquerque's verdant South Valley, the afternoon sun is beginning to soften. A band plays under a spreading cottonwood, and in the audience ...