The University of California Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources (UCANR), has an online plant identification tool ...

With proper care, a Christmas cactus can live for up to a century but even these hardy plants aren’t without their share of pests. Luckily bugs in Christmas cactus are a rarity and generally not ...

The iPhone's built-in plant identifier allows you to visually look up a wide range of mystery flora As plant lovers, we’re always stopping to smell the roses—literally. But it can be hard to identify ...

A group of cacti species native to a remote Chilean desert has been poached to near extinction, thanks in part to social media crazes continents away. According to a new report from the International ...

All over the desert, rain will bring one of the biggest cactus flower shows in years. Existing cactus plants in gardens and landscapes as well as in the wild will be reproducing with a vengeance after ...

Celebrate National Cactus Day by meeting the pioneering botanist, Joseph Nelson Rose Jack Tamisiea As the largest species of cactus in the United States, saguaro cactuses usually grow around 40 feet ...

A recent raid in Italy involving rare Chilean species highlights the growing scale of a black market in the thorny plants. Copiapoa cinerascens, a cactus, in Pan de Azúcar National Park in the Atacama ...