The prickly pear cactus (opuntia engelmannii) is a quintessential desert plant, highly useful to many species including our ...

Climate change is pushing people to explore — and in cactuses, discover foods that others have known for ages. A curator at ...

Titan Arum, also known as the corpse flower, is famous for its enormous size and foul odor, attracting pollinators in its ...

Over the next month, The Desert Sun and The Living Desert are collaborating on a four-part series, Desert Botany: An Intro to ...

Climate change has made paramount the need to identify food crops that can grow in desert, with little water ... healthier diet. Just six plant species — corn, rice, wheat, soybeans, potatoes ...

The Huntington in San Marino is dealing with a rash of thefts of succulents at the famous site. Here’s what happened and how ...

Desert landscapes need additional deep watering only three or four times each year. Give them deep watering when the air temperatures get hot — don’t wait.

Yet she has never bought a plant. Most of her flowers are from friends and family, and she multiplies them by propagation. So ...

Phoenix’s desert climate, characterized by its intense heat, unrelenting sun and aridity, is the foundation for the biophilic ...

Arid plants, such as cacti and other succulents, thrive on very little water. They have developed ways to retain what little ...

The Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino has a problem with plant thieves. Whole succulent plants have been swiped in ...