While hiking near Big Bend Ranch State Park's Contrabando Trail, something Michael Alvard had never seen before caught his ...
A Texas hiker who stumbles on a once-in-a-lifetime rare cactus in the desert is not just finding a botanical curiosity, but ...
An American desert icon is dying off in the southwestern United States. Experts say record-setting summers and intense droughts in Arizona are causing a well-known succulent to struggle. The saguaro ...
A new study shows that demand for wild cactus and rare plants many soon surpass supply in the Chihuahuan Desert of Mexico and the US. Gland, Switzerland – Demand for wild cactus and rare plants by ...
There is several things to do at Saguaro National Park located in Tucson Arizona. Beyond activities, the park itself pro ...
With their tough skins, pointy armor and legendary stamina, cacti are made to defend themselves from whatever nature throws at them. But large solar energy facilities are one threat that cacti weren’t ...
The popularity of cacti and succulents has made these once-specialty plants widely available and introduced a new generation ...
The cacti arrive in buckets and cardboard boxes, in truck beds and plastic cups. Some are prickly green knobs smaller than a fist; others are saguaros a few feet tall—miniature versions of the ...