The National Park Service reports centuries-old giant cacti known as saguaros are suddenly blooming out of season in Arizona. It’s unclear why. National Park Service photo That mysterious metal ...

Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 70, No. 22, Special Issue: New Perspectives in CAM Biology (15 November 2019), pp. 6509-6519 (11 pages) The plant family Cactaceae is considered among the most ...

Botanists from the Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum, near Tucson, Arizona, have recently discovered that the cardón cacti have a "trioecious" breeding system. This means that different cacti have ...

Towering structures must be able to bend and sway when subjected to the forces of wind and ground movement, or they will ...

Giant cacti sculptures and a new park with an amphitheater are in the works for Indio's downtown in the city's latest efforts to revitalize the area. During Indio's City Council meeting on Wednesday, ...

Alcides Peixinho Nascimento walks through his plantation of mandacaru - Copyright AFP Volker Hartmann Alcides Peixinho Nascimento walks through his plantation of ...