While Thomson’s Lemitar crop in Southern New Mexico came early, in the East Mountains, a prickly pear jelly maker said her bumper crop is in late bloom. “The fruit is falling off the cactus ...

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 ...

Prickly pear is a kind of cactus fruit. Cactus pads and cactus fruit have long been tied to indigenous cultures all across Mexico, with people using them as food as far back as 9,000 to 12,000 ...

Outside of Colorado Jonathan apples, the New Mexico fruit is said to be the finest received here this season. The varieties are Gano, mammoth black twig, winesap, Arkansas black. Missouri pippin ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – A New Mexico cactus at the heart of an endangered species battle is now heading for a court battle. According to conservationists, the unique plant is at risk of ...

“Here, man is only a visitor,” said a former ranger of New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness ... juniper and groves of tentacled cane cholla cactus tipped in faded yellow fruit.