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Nopal Prickly Pear

🌵 Nopal Prickly Pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) – A Taste of Mexico in Your Garden 🌵

Bring a touch of Mexico’s vibrant landscapes into your home or garden with the Nopal Prickly Pear—a captivating and versatile cactus featuring large, bold pads, vibrant orange blooms, and edible fruit. Perfect for both practical and ornamental purposes, the Nopal Prickly Pear thrives in warm, arid climates and adds unique texture and color to any space.

🌟 Why Choose the Nopal Prickly Pear?

🌿 Distinctive Appearance: Known for its tree-like form, the Nopal Prickly Pear can grow up to 10 feet tall when planted in the ground. Its large, pad-like segments create a dramatic, sculptural effect in any landscape or garden setting.

❄️ Cold Sensitivity & Container Suitability: Ideal for warm climates, the Nopal Prickly Pear thrives in intense heat but is sensitive to freezing temperatures. In cooler areas, it grows well in containers that can be moved indoors for year-round enjoyment.

🌿 Ornamental & Practical Benefits

🌞 Landscape Accent: The bold texture and vibrant colors of the Nopal Prickly Pear make it an excellent choice for contrast in arid, drought-resistant gardens or xeriscaping.

🏞️ Erosion Control: With its extensive root system, the Nopal Prickly Pear helps stabilize soil, making it a practical solution for slopes and areas prone to erosion.

🍓 Edible Fruit: The Nopal cactus produces delicious fruits known as tunas, perfect for fresh eating or turning into jams, jellies, and beverages.

💧 Drought-Tolerant Gardens: Ideal for xeriscaping, the Nopal cactus thrives in dry conditions and conserves water.

🍴 Culinary Uses

🌱 Edible Pads (Nopalitos): The young pads of the Nopal cactus, known as “nopalitos”, are a staple in Mexican cuisine. Sauté them for a delicious addition to dishes, rich in minerals, fiber and flavor.

🍉 Prickly Pear Fruits (Tunas): These sweet, juicy fruits can be enjoyed fresh or used in various culinary applications, from drinks to desserts.

🚚 Guaranteed Quality Shipping

We carefully select, wrap and package your Nopal Prickly Pear cactus to ensure it arrives in perfect condition, ready to be planted easily in its new home. All orders come with planting, watering, and general care instructions to ensure the best start for your new cactus.

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Prickly Pear design and application suggestions:

Prickly Pear design and application suggestions:

Opuntias, the prickly pear family of cacti, can be used in many different ways. In the landscape, the prickly pear family can be used as a very nice contrast to other cacti and succulents. The rounded pads, beautiful flowers of yellow, orange, red and pink plus different pad colors and sizes offer distinguished contrast in the landscape or in a nice container. Some prickly pear species can be used as a succulent groundcover. Some prickly pears, like the Santa Rita “purple” prickly pear, are ideal as unique pieces interspersed throughout the landscape or a nice contrast to a group of cacti and succulents in pots. Prickly pears are also very forgiving. They will tolerate the hottest parts of your landscape and like it! The prickly pear family also thrives on very little water and can take very cold overnight temperatures.

Opuntias, the prickly pear family of cacti, can be used in many different ways. In the landscape, the prickly pear family can be used as a very nice contrast to other cacti and succulents. The rounded pads, beautiful flowers of yellow, orange, red and pink plus different pad colors and sizes offer distinguished contrast in the landscape or in a nice container. Some prickly pear species can be used as a succulent groundcover. Some prickly pears, like the Santa Rita “purple” prickly pear, are ideal as unique pieces interspersed throughout the landscape or a nice contrast to a group of cacti and succulents in pots. Prickly pears are also very forgiving. They will tolerate the hottest parts of your landscape and like it! The prickly pear family also thrives on very little water and can take very cold overnight temperatures.

Prickly Pear design and application suggestions:

Prickly Pear design and application suggestions:

Opuntias, the prickly pear family of cacti, can be used in many different ways. In the landscape, the prickly pear family can be used as a very nice contrast to other cacti and succulents. The rounded pads, beautiful flowers of yellow, orange, red and pink plus different pad colors and sizes offer distinguished contrast in the landscape or in a nice container. Some prickly pear species can be used as a succulent groundcover. Some prickly pears, like the Santa Rita “purple” prickly pear, are ideal as unique pieces interspersed throughout the landscape or a nice contrast to a group of cacti and succulents in pots. Prickly pears are also very forgiving. They will tolerate the hottest parts of your landscape and like it! The prickly pear family also thrives on very little water and can take very cold overnight temperatures.

Opuntias, the prickly pear family of cacti, can be used in many different ways. In the landscape, the prickly pear family can be used as a very nice contrast to other cacti and succulents. The rounded pads, beautiful flowers of yellow, orange, red and pink plus different pad colors and sizes offer distinguished contrast in the landscape or in a nice container. Some prickly pear species can be used as a succulent groundcover. Some prickly pears, like the Santa Rita “purple” prickly pear, are ideal as unique pieces interspersed throughout the landscape or a nice contrast to a group of cacti and succulents in pots. Prickly pears are also very forgiving. They will tolerate the hottest parts of your landscape and like it! The prickly pear family also thrives on very little water and can take very cold overnight temperatures.

Why purchase our Prickly Pear?

Why purchase our Prickly Pear?

Our prickly pears are grown in their native habitat right here in Southern Arizona. Raised outdoors with just the right amount of water and fertilizer, they come to you in their natural form. These plants do not come to you from a greenhouse. They are already hardy to whatever growing conditions you have to offer. You will not see any evidence of pads getting skinny and reaching for light. The prickly pears present the same appearance as you will find them in their native habitats.

If you want to plant them in a container for a sunroom, patio or window planter, great! If you want to take your new prickly pear cacti and plant them in the ground, also great! No acclimation needed. Our plants are ready to go!

Our prickly pears are grown in their native habitat right here in Southern Arizona. Raised outdoors with just the right amount of water and fertilizer, they come to you in their natural form. These plants do not come to you from a greenhouse. They are already hardy to whatever growing conditions you have to offer. You will not see any evidence of pads getting skinny and reaching for light. The prickly pears present the same appearance as you will find them in their native habitats.

If you want to plant them in a container for a sunroom, patio or window planter, great! If you want to take your new prickly pear cacti and plant them in the ground, also great! No acclimation needed. Our plants are ready to go!

Reliable packaging and shipping

Reliable packaging and shipping

We strive to offer the most healthy cacti and succulents you can find anywhere that are shipped right to your door. Our plants are professionally packaged with expertise honed by shipping amazing plants to customers like you for over 20 years. Our packaging process ensures a bare minimum of damaged orders. All of our plants are wrapped in bubble wrap and tape, which should not be taken off until your plant is in its final home. The bubble wrap offers you and the plant additional protection while planting. All of our plants are shipped bare root.

We strive to offer the most healthy cacti and succulents you can find anywhere that are shipped right to your door. Our plants are professionally packaged with expertise honed by shipping amazing plants to customers like you for over 20 years. Our packaging process ensures a bare minimum of damaged orders. All of our plants are wrapped in bubble wrap and tape, which should not be taken off until your plant is in its final home. The bubble wrap offers you and the plant additional protection while planting. All of our plants are shipped bare root.

Reliable packaging and shipping

Reliable packaging and shipping

We strive to offer the most healthy cacti and succulents you can find anywhere that are shipped right to your door. Our plants are professionally packaged with expertise honed by shipping amazing plants to customers like you for over 20 years. Our packaging process ensures a bare minimum of damaged orders. All of our plants are wrapped in bubble wrap and tape, which should not be taken off until your plant is in its final home. The bubble wrap offers you and the plant additional protection while planting. All of our plants are shipped bare root.

We strive to offer the most healthy cacti and succulents you can find anywhere that are shipped right to your door. Our plants are professionally packaged with expertise honed by shipping amazing plants to customers like you for over 20 years. Our packaging process ensures a bare minimum of damaged orders. All of our plants are wrapped in bubble wrap and tape, which should not be taken off until your plant is in its final home. The bubble wrap offers you and the plant additional protection while planting. All of our plants are shipped bare root.

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Matthew Kott
Growing well

catus arrived is great shape. I planted them in catus soil and they very quickly showed signs of life and are doing well.

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Kathleen Thomas

It was a gift.

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chad Williams
My little Nopales are doing great!

The shipping was amazing and the arrived looking great

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Demarley Connor
Love my plant!

It’s the healthiest and strongest of all my plants. Been thriving from day 1 since I got it.

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BETTY FRANCA
Been looking for the green fruit bearing nopal forever!

And I've finally found it at the Cactus Outlet!! It is now enjoying life in my front yard in Northern California, amid lava rock, in full sun, mimicking the life at its former home Arizona. I can't wait that it produces me some green tunas! They are delicious!

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