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, ...

It's found in the U.S. exclusively in the Big Bend region of West Texas.

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 ...

University of Cincinnati student Olivia Leek is showing me a small, prickly plant in a plastic bag. "My favorite specimen is just kind of silly; doesn't really have a deep backstory to it," she ...

ROME (AP) — Armed with a search warrant, Italy’s police wildlife unit entered the house of a suspected cactus trafficker, finding over 1,000 rare cacti poached from Chile's Atacama Desert in a locked ...

While blooming, the Amazonian cactus releases a unique sweet scent similar to honeysuckles and gardenias, but that scent is short-lived and turns foul after two hours. Cambridge University Botanic ...

Armed with a search warrant, Italy’s police wildlife unit entered the house of a suspected cactus trafficker, finding over 1,000 rare cacti poached from Chile's Atacama Desert in a locked room. This ...