In my fourth journal entry for the Montana Master Naturalist class I’m taking, I focused on these cryptantha plants that I had called “fuzzy” in my first journal entry. They are still fuzzy – not prickly – but now have white flowers that are about half an inch wide. Notice the but...
This cactus oil is at the heart of each of Huxley’s products, and has proven key to its popularity (the brand holds exclusive rights to the use of Moroccan prickly pear seed oil in Korea). Simultaneously nourishing and barely there on the skin, the intense moisturisation is j...
Explorers are unusual in that they tend to seek out this terrain, to challenge themselves by testing the limits of their endurance and resourcefulness and, along the way, stare back at their own fears, and all in the name of science. But for everyAdmiral Byrdthat has succeeded, there have ...
Following this comes the second blast of color from the sunny Southwest, in my travels I found the Hedgehog Cactus was beginning to build it’s bloom and soon that purple blossom will be joined by red, yellow or orange Cholla blooms, massive displays from the yellow Prickly pear flowers and...
President Trump wants a wall, “a wonderful wall” on which he can place his name. Trump believes he can crush “the crisis on America’s Southern Border”, for just $9 million a mile. While public polling showed that 47 percent of Arizona residents think the wall proposal is a “waste...
Its name derives from “the Castle of the Lions,” and Castiglione’s coat of arms still features two lions standing guard. For centuries it was a vibrant and powerful fiefdom and one of Sicily’s strategic and most prosperous outposts, nicknamed the “fiery” town by Frederick II, the 13t...
Nopal Verde is the prickly pear cactus 'vegetable' variety of the Nopal Opuntia ficusindica species. Known as green Nopal and the traditionally consumed ancient variety, Nopal cactus is the modern name used for consumption as a food and a supplement. ...