However, Easter cactus is from a different genus. If you look closely, you can tell it apart from the other holiday cacti.

After thousands of rare Chilean cacti were found in the house of an Italian collector, a years-long trial slowly unravelled ...

I paid a lot of attention to those words because I already had a big — make that a giant interest in growing these ...

Christmas cactuses, and the closely related Thanksgiving and Easter cactuses, are not your standard cactus plants. Not only do these cactuses not produce spines, but they’re actually tropical ...

Cactus leaves have become a lot smaller so they don't lose so much water; most have shrunk to spines or hairs but some have disappeared altogether! The stems are green to make food for the plant ...

Many desert plants are built to protect their water ... Assistant producer Lance Featherstone removes the spines of the Cholla cactus from a glove, after David plunged it into the cactus to ...

Photosynthesis occurs in the modified spines, but especially in the green ... specifically in the fascinating Cactaceae, the cactus plant family. But what about all the other plants we lump ...

A well-known personality in the Italian plant world, Piombetti has been cactus collector and trader ... deflated sack of spines. "This one too." Research by the scientists Guerrero and Goettsch ...