Prickly pear, a fruit derived from the cactus plant ... which can range in color from green to yellow, orange, red, or deep magenta. The exterior is covered in small spines or glochids, which ...

Experts say consumers should brace for fewer fruits on grocery store shelves after a historic deep freeze damaged crops.

Even within the most common species, Opuntia ficus-indica, you might see fruit that's white, green, purple, yellow, red, or orange. Prickly pear is a kind of cactus fruit. Cactus pads and cactus ...

Let Stemilt’s Granny Smith and D’Anjou pears be the green consumers find in the produce department this St. Patricks’ Day.

Ripe papaya is also good in tropical fruit salads and puréed in smoothies. Use green papaya as a vegetable or turn into pickle. It is particularly good raw in Thai salads such as green papaya ...

fruit rots, rusts, and powdery mildew. Fire blight is a common problem in pears. Stone fruits are affected by peach leaf curl, bacterial spot, brown rot, scab, and leaf spot. Left: Fire Blight on Pear ...