Despite their prickly appearance, cacti make a great addition to any home and garden space. With their diverse shapes, sizes and colors, these desert-loving plants thrive in various environments, ...

As the holiday draws near, garden centers and grocery stores fill up with brightly blooming plants called Christmas cactus. But many of these colorful plants are actually a close cousin, the ...

A group of various cacti in small pots - Elena_Alex_Ferns/Shutterstock Cacti are tolerant to drought and hard to kill, making them ideal for aspiring gardeners whose ...

There are both types of cactuses, and they look almost identical. There are differences, however. As the name implies, the ...

Tis the season for holiday cactuses, but can you tell them apart? Here's how to identify the differences between a ...

SILVER CITY, N.M.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today changed the designation of a rare New Mexico cactus from “endangered” to the less-dire “threatened,” reflecting its progress toward recovery ...

Cacti are among the world’s most threatened species, even more so than mammals and birds, according to the first ever global assessment. Native to arid parts of the Americas, Cacti have also been ...

BATIMORE, Md. — Inside the plant shop B. Willow, owner Liz Vayda carefully tends to her livelihood. “Plants are the basis of life,” she said. Yet, they’re also the basis of something else: a lucrative ...

An illegal trade in wild cacti is threatening more than 30 per cent of all species of the spiky desert plants with extinction. A study of 1,478 of 1,480 species of cacti has found that plant ...