Fowler doesn’t waste time stopping for meals on his cactus expeditions. As dawn broke, a Grateful Dead album played quietly in the background and the men gossiped about fellow succulent lovers who’d ...

Stephen McCabe, emeritus director of research at the UCSC Arboretum & Botanic Garden, has described two new species of rare succulents in the genus Dudleya. McCabe identified the new species after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here's the catch: Last week, just as I learned about these rare, adorable little succulents, every listing I could find for the ...

Greedy collectors and rising temperatures are a dual threat that’s robbing South Africa of rare desert plant species. Matt Alderton is a journalist who covers climate and environment issues, renewable ...

As out-of-control heat cooks our planet, shattering temperature records for the last 13 consecutive months, it melts polar ice and raises sea levels. Most people are familiar with how this works, but ...

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 ...

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 rare moonflower cactus, which bloomed at Cambridge University's botanic garden for what is believed to be the first time in the U.K., closed for good this morning. The glasshouse team at the garden ...

CapeNature ranger Hilton Bocks bends down to point out a tiny succulent, one of many spread over the stony plains of the Knersvlakte Nature Reserve on the West Coast. The pebbles crunch under our ...