For tough, resilient plants, Opuntia engelmannii is the cactus to grow. Delivered as one small pad which will quickly establish and grow, eventually producing colorful blooms.

Alkanes and esthers contributed up to 97% of the total epicuticular wax on cladophylls of glasshouse-grown Texas pricklypear cactus (Opuntia engelmannii var. texana [Gr.] Weniger). Alkane content ...

Newcomers like me and the Spanish colonizers who arrived three centuries before. According to Garcia, Tohono O’odham people had no history of using prickly pear, and the parts Hispanic culture used, ...

The prickly pear cactus (opuntia engelmannii) is a quintessential desert plant, highly useful to many species including our own for food, water, and shelter, and it may have helped save my life once.

Temperatures of six desert species were measured: Opuntia engelmannii, Opuntia bigelovii, Opuntia acanthocarpa, Echinocereus engelmannii, Larrea tridentata and Franseria deltoidea. Daily temperature ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Britton, N.L. and Rose, J.N. Opuntia ...

The prickly pear cactus (opuntia engelmannii) is a quintessential desert plant, highly useful to many species including our own for food, water, and shelter, and it may have helped save my life once.

The species most often seen in the wild here is Engelmann prickly pear, or Opuntia engelmannii, but other species, such as the Opuntia humifusa, or Eastern prickly pear, can be found in all of the ...