All About This Sweet Fruit Nopales are the pads or leaves of the nopal cactus or the prickly pear (botanical name, Opuntia ficus-indica ... ate all parts of the plant, including the young paddles ...

compressa Macbride, O. ficus-indica (L.) Miller, O. megacantha Salm-Dyck, O. stricta (Haw.) Haworth and O. tomentosa Salm-Dyck, are known hosts of the cactus moth. /// Los cactus del género Opuntia ...

Nopal (prickly pear cactus) is a plant of the Opuntia ficus indica species and a member of the Cactaceae family. You can find it growing in sandy soil in regions such as the U.S. Southwest ...