Succulents are often labeled low maintenance, yet many popular varieties benefit from occasional pruning to stay healthy, ...

Few plant families are as iconic as the resilient, spiky cactus, thriving in the driest deserts and as well as decorating our offices and homes. Their success in both environments comes down to ...

Rebecca Blackwell / AP 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 ...

Michigan is snow-filled with harsh winter weather. Our Upper Peninsula mountains were lesser known for succulents until a Michigan Tech doctoral student stumbled upon a hidden desert gem. Biological ...

Our region’s cacti are adapted to dry, hot conditions and thrive where many plants cannot. Cacti have lost their leaves and developed fleshy, photosynthetic stems containing water-storing pulp. Cactus ...