The Colorado hookless cactus has far more specimens in the wild, and a better drought survival record, than previously thought It took two years from proposal to acceptance. But apparently the ...

A rare moonflower cactus, which bloomed at Cambridge University's botanic garden for what is believed to be the first time in the U.K., closed for good this morning. The glasshouse team at the garden ...

A rare tree cactus that grew for decades hidden by a tangle of mangrove trees on Florida's Key Largo has lost its battle with rising sea levels and other pressures. It's now considered locally extinct ...

Desert Botanical Garden serves as national rescue center for rare and endangered cacti Steve Blackwell, the Conservation Collections Manager, oversees the collection of rare and endangered plants, ...

For centuries, the wild grasslands and valleys of Minnesota were dotted with a type of cactus, spiky and round, that blooms every spring. It grows about ankle high, roughly the size of a softball, and ...

Two birds were spotted resting atop a rare and mutated cactus in the Arizona desert, giving people on social media plenty to talk about. The “special desert sight” was caught on camera and shows two ...

A clandestine group has spent thousands of hours searching the Sonoran Desert for massive rare cactuses endangered by the expansion of Arizona cities. The Crested Saguaro Society began searching the ...