Israeli scientists are developing crops which will grow to maturity with minimal water supplies. So far they have managed to grow commercial quantities of two cactus varieties. They say their work ...

Although no natural infections with lung flukes were encountered in the hydrobioid snail Aroapyrgus colombiensis from streams in the Condebamba Valley, Peru, laboratory-bred snails were readily ...

Fusarium oxysporum has recently been detected in commercial nurseries in the Liguria region (northern Italy) on new succulent plants belonging to the Cactaceae family (Astrophytum myriostigma, Cereus ...

Abuja — An academician, Professor IK. Aduba at the weekend in Abuja called on the federal government to consider using the plant called Cactus Opuntia (popularly named prickly pear) to combat ...

Ah, Florida! We lucky folks live in a land of lush, tropical foliage that's stirred by balmy breezes and watered year-round by warm, gentle rains. No, we don't: The majority of our rainfall occurs in ...

Although soggy Seattle seems an unlikely place to grow the plant that is the symbol of the driest places on Earth, Dave Nicol has been growing cactuses here for 30 years. His cactus collection numbers ...

Dharwad: A cactus plant, grown near SDM College of Dental Sciences near Sattur has entered in the Guinness Book of World Records as the tallest plant. Cereus peruvianus in botanical terminology, the ...

Hedge cactus is a potentially massive plant that grows 50 feet tall along the coasts of southern Brazil and northern Argentina. Even in Central Florida, this cold-hardy, branching species often ...