Walnut Creek’s Ruth Bancroft is a national authority on drought-resistant gardening. Twice a month, she and her staff share their knowledge with readers. Q At the Ruth Bancroft Garden, I saw a prickly ...

Opuntia, the prickly pear cactus, originated in South America, moved into the valleys of the Andes and then north into Mexico and North America. In Southern California, opuntia grows in the coastal ...

In this video, I demonstrate how to create a tool from a giant cane stem to safely harvest thorny prickly pear fruit from the ...

To control and curtail the spread of opuntia that is wiping away grazing lands and harming livestock in Northern Kenya, an organisation has decided to harness its highly nutritive qualities. The ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Resource and pollen limitation, as well as pollen/ovule incompatibility, have been proposed as causes to explain fruit abortion. To assess ...

India (Madras Presidency): ripe fruit eaten; green fruit and tender shoots may be cooked in curries. This site is provided to Mr. Freedman by Dr. Jules Janick, Emeritus Professor and Former James ...

There are opportunities and opportunities, and it would be fair to observe that we Pakistanis are fairly good at grabbing them by their proverbial throat and then ‘milking’ them for every conceivable ...

DR. ERNST'S abnormal fruit of Opuntia, as figured at p. 77, appears to be similar to one described and illustrated by Zuccarini (Abhandl. d. math. phys. Class., B. iv ...

M. T. Hoffman, C. D. James, G. I. H. Kerley and W. G. Whitford We studied the timing and effect of black-tailed jackrabbit and desert cottontail herbivory on a platyopuntia species, Opuntia violacea ...

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Negative numbers listed are 1696,.