It's understandable why you might have mistaken your prickly pear for a Christmas cactus. Upon first look, they seem the same - both with a succulent-cacti form and orange or pink flowers.

The prickly pear cactus is probably the most identifiable ... They have beautiful, fragrant (and edible) flowers, which can be pinkish, yellow, reddish, or even a combination of these on the ...

Covered in menacing needlelike spines, the prickly pear cactus demands to ... the showy clusters of yellow, red and orange flowers that bloom atop the cactus pads can captivate.

The nopal cactus is more commonly known as the prickly ... In older research, scientists compared the juices from various colors of prickly pear: red-purple, white-green, and yellow-orange.