GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – Two rare cactus plants found at a western Colorado construction site have disappeared, and authorities aren’t sure what happened. The Colorado hookless cactus plants were ...

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 ...

A large population of one of the world’s rarest plants has been discovered at Biscayne National Park, which encompasses islands, shorelines and reefs in southern Biscayne Bay. The semaphore ...

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 super-rare Amazonian cactus is set to flower for what is thought to be the first time ever in the UK - for 12 hours only. The tropical Moonflower, or Selenicereus wittii, is usually exclusive to the ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.—Two rare cactus plants found at a western Colorado construction site have disappeared, and authorities aren’t sure what happened. The Colorado hookless cactus plants were ...

NYC's Cactus Store offers a wide range of unusual plants for sale, but their rarest is a Haageocereus tenuis, listed for sale on their website for $250,000. Gifted to the store's owners by a collector ...

Michael Eason sat at his desk scrolling through cactus listings on eBay. Eason — a botanist in Alpine, Texas — was looking for something called the Ariocarpus fissuratus. Squat, furrowed and fleeced ...

They look sturdy, even hostile, but cactus plants in the southwestern United States and Mexico are under attack. According to wildlife conservationists, cactuses are being dug up and smuggled away at ...

The plant’s story of finding its home here in Reno is an interesting one. The Arboretum’s corpse plant came to Reno about six years ago from Orange Coast College, by way of Joe Clements, former ...