If you're looking to broaden your fruit horizons beyond the quotidien, consider the many ways to eat prickly pears. Also known as cactus pear, this delectable desert fruit grows on shrub-size ...

And since many spas incorporate botanicals sourced from the Sonoran Desert (like prickly pear and cactus flower) into their treatments, a visit to the spa can be as educational as it is restorative.

The prickly pear cactus has a big network of shallow roots ... Boerhavia repens is a desert plant which can germinate, grow, produce flowers and ripen seeds in the space of ten days after it ...

Many desert plants are built to protect their water stores, and none are better defended than the cactus. Filming in ... I found myself sitting on prickly pear too many times to recall, and ...