nopalery

noun1

1. •
   A plantation of nopal (a prickly pear cactus of the genus Opuntia, especially Opuntia cochinellifera) used as food for the cochineal insect (Dactylopius coccus), which is raised to produce carmine dye.

   • This species [the wild cochineal] multiplies more readily, spreads further and faster without any assistance; so that a nopalry is soon covered with them. — 1783