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 ...

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 ...

In June 2021, a white variegated Rhaphidophora tetrasperma with eight leaves and a ninth just unfurling sold for $19,297 on a New Zealand auction site. Two anonymous buyers, “foliage_patch” and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like any proper diva, the Queen of the Night makes her adoring fans wait until she’s good and ready. And like any marquee performance, the cactus blooms for one night only. Expert analysis has ...

JUSTICE has caught up with four men who attempted to profit from the poaching of the Northern Cape's rare and endangered plants. According to Northern Cape police spokesperson Captain Ivan Magerman, ...