It may be flavoured with prickly pear fruit.
Other potential nesting sites range from desert plants such as mesquite, prickly pear, yucca to occasional occurrences of oak and pine trees.
Most culinary uses of the term prickly pear refer to this species.
Several of the men died on this expedition from eating prickly pear.
These were in turn surrounded by hedges of prickly pear or cactus, making them strong natural places of defence.
His other interests included reducing sand erosion, promoting wattle cultivation for the tanning industry, and control (or utilisation) of prickly pear.
It is sometimes called the sprawling prickly pear due to its short stems and habit of growing close to the ground.
Longhorn cactus beetles feed on chollas and prickly pear cacti, and are known to feed on saguaro seedlings.
