MEXICO CITY — Even though it's illegal, bars of acitrón are stacked in nearly every stall at the Merced market in Mexico City. They look like lemon bars. But they're pieces of barrel cactus that have ...

Smart gardeners in West Hawaii are installing some drought tolerant plants in their landscapes. Of course, one of the most drought tolerant groups of plants are those that can thrive in the desert. We ...

It's is easy to remember genus Ferocactus if you think ferocious-cactus. The species are distributed over Southern California, Baja and Arizona are fabulous in the wild and even better tended in our ...

The only thing in life we can count on is change. We just didn’texpect things to change as radically as they have since theeconomic meltdown. Nothing is like it was. Now, even less iscertain, as the ...

Climate change has made paramount the need to identify food crops that can grow in desert, with little water. Though some types of cactuses, like the prickly pear, have been consumed in Central ...

If a cactus could have attitude, the giant barrel variety might be excused for feeling a bit snubbed. The magnificent specimens — blooming brilliantly in this rain-washed season — get nowhere near the ...