Fall brings a special kind of magic to the iconic Saguaro National Park in Arizona. Here's what makes this season one of the ...

Flowers are the start of producing the seeds that would eventually become saguaros, so the more flowers you produce could be ...

It's is easy to remember genus Ferocactus if you think ferocious-cactus. The species are distributed over Southern California, Baja and Arizona are fabulous in the wild and even better tended in our ...

Organ pipe cactus (Stenocereus thurberi) is one of three species of bat‐pollinated columnar cacti that co‐occur along the Gulf Coastal region of the Sonoran Desert in northwestern Mexico. Its ...

Give them the right conditions and these flowering cacti can look as ravishing in your home as they have for centuries in the desert. A few years ago I visited the Desert Garden which is part of the ...

SANTIAGO, Aug 24 (Reuters) - The arid plains of northern Chile are likely to once again be painted a rainbow of colors with blooming flowers after this year's winter rains set the stage for the ...

Thirty miles north of Amman, Jordan, some 100 acres of bright green grass grew eight inches high. Around it lay dusty desert supporting a few tough shrubs. Soldiers of the Arab Legion last week were ...

Background and aims –The reproductive characteristics of sympatric Cactaceae are important because they help to understand interfering or facilitating mechanisms that allow their coexistence. Globose ...

The Christmas cactus, also known as the Holiday cactus, or more accurately, Schlumbergera, is a trailing tropical cactus that puts on a fabulous annual display of flowers. These blooms usually appear ...