The vibrant top is referred to as a scion, and the base of the plant is the rootstock. Although there are several types of grafted cacti, the moon cactus (Gymnocalycium mihanovichii) is one of the ...

For less prickly types, choose cacti such as holiday cacti, which don't have sharp spines. One more comment: Some plants that are called "cactus" belong to a different or related group of plants ...

Scientists also declared several other extinctions, including the first documented plant extinction in New Hampshire.

Cactus leaves have become a lot smaller ... Lots of agaves do this! Pebble plants (Lithops species) only have two leaves, and they look like the pebbles on the ground next to the plant.

The cactus has a dull-gray, fleshy stem with shrubby branches ... observed are thought to be the product of asexual seed reproduction. FEEDING: This species, like most plants, gets its nutrition ...

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 ...

are regarded as very important plants, especially in semi-arid and arid regions ... Central Mexico is considered to be one of the main centers of cactus diversity. Approximately 200 species of Opuntia ...

The site where the species grew "originally had a distinct layer of soil and organic matter that allowed the cactus and other plants to grow, but storm surge from hurricanes and exceptionally high ...

THREATS: Habitat loss is a major threat to this species, resulting from urban ... which prevent new plants from taking root. It is estimated that up to 75 percent of the Pima pineapple cactus's ...