Alice’s note: This story first appeared in my blog Cactus are Cool on November 24, 2025. Ariocarpus are a cactus that I really like, and I think I have more of them than any other genus of cactus!

It’s been a few years now since I last wrote about my all-time favorite genus of Mexican cacti, the Ariocarpus. Then last week when I visited my greenhouse, I noticed a most astonishing and memorable ...

It’s always great to start a new year with a big bang (in the positive sense of the word, of course). Our stock market sure started out that way but unfortunately has fizzled out and may be on a ...

"They came from outer space," claims David Salman, who sent out a press release that claims he discovered a unique group of extraterrestrial plants in an unmapped meteor crater just west of Roswell, N ...