Aloe vera is a versatile and resilient plant that thrives in desert conditions. Native to the Arabian Peninsula, this ...

The desert rose is a succulent prized for its thick trunk, delicate foliage, and trumpet-shaped flowers in shades of deep […] ...

By KATRINA BRANDON HIDDEN away within the Gippsland hills is an agave americana (century or half-century plant) that only [..

Conophytum, or conos, are succulents that are some of the ... rise and fall until they tumble into the Kalahari Desert proper. There are plants for asthma, infertility or gall bladder problems.

Botanist Gustaf Starck rallied people passionate about preserving desert plants with a sign outside his Scottsdale ranch.

Some conos are so hyperendemic that poachers can wipe out the entire population of one species in just a couple of visits.

Some cacti and succulents have swollen roots that store ... Boerhavia repens is a desert plant which can germinate, grow, produce flowers and ripen seeds in the space of ten days after it has ...

Starck collected a showcase of cactuses and succulents on his ranch ... of the Valley and the general underappreciation of desert plant life, Starck and his peers formed the Arizona Cactus ...