Biznaga

Decorate with candied fruit; in Mexico, candied cactus, called biznaga, is used. ❋ Unknown (1998)

Don't forget the sweets, many of them made with the cactus fruits, biznaga and xoconoxtle, abundant in the Bajío, as are the nopal paddles incorporated into a wide variety of dishes from soup to tacos. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Keep your eyes open when scrambling about on the rocks since many small prickly pear and biznaga cacti, armed with penetrating spines, lie in wait for feet inadequately protected by thin-soled tennis shoes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This family effort has produced some gorgeous specimens, including the biznaga and de conchita pineapples for which Alejos is most well known. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Additionally, his work is highlighted in the cultural tomb entitled Grandes Maestros del Arte Popular Mexicano, which is published by the Fomento Cultural Banamex and features the potter's biznaga pineapple on the cover. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The biznaga model is inspired by the cactus of the same name and as such, is decorated to look like a cross between a pineapple and this succulent plant. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Favorite Mexican Candy: Candied biznaga, glorias, obleas ❋ Unknown (2005)

Uses of the plant culinary, medicinal etc, recipes with nopales, mixiotes, maybe some maguey worm sauce, tequila and/or mezcal tasting, biznaga sweets and recipes with tuna (prickly pear). ❋ Unknown (2005)

All the trees, all the bushes, were barbed and cruel and menacing -- a biznaga, pointing like a finger of scorn toward the sky, an unkempt palo verde, the eternal Joshua trees, like charred stumps that had stood in the path of a fire. ❋ Biggers, Earl Derr, 1884-1933 (1926)