For years, researchers monitoring the plants thought they were the same species as another rare tree cactus growing elsewhere in the Keys. But tufts of long, wooly hairs growing at the base of its ...

A rare cactus takes root. Shin Yu Pai. July 18, 2022 / 12:03 am Jessica Rubenacker and the night-blooming cereus. Shin Yu Pai Jessica ... Jessica’s plants on Instagram .

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 ...

Some cactus smugglers steal seeds from the wild but leave the plant in place. This is illegal, but the logic is that taking seeds in order to sell them or nourish them in a nursery is the only way ...

TWO lucky Kouga Express readers stand the chance to win an exotic flower gift box. Called Hope in a Box, the gift set includes exotic cactus seeds and soil that has been specially prepared for this ...

Hookless cactus seeds must be chipped in order to begin indoor propagation, breaking through some of the evolutionary barriers made for drought survival. Researchers dread this part of the job ...

The Key Largo tree cactus was initially found growing in the United States in 1992 at a single site. ... and all rare plants in the Florida Keys, are threatened with a similar fate." Read more.