Cactus plants: In my mind’s eye, I see them as globular or columnar, living in deserts and firmly set in the ground. But with more than 2,000 species in the Americas, it’s not surprising there are ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Five species of columnar cacti were examined with the aim of introducing new orchard crops to the Negev desert of Israel. The species ...

In southern Arizona the columnar cactus, Lophocereus schottii, inhabits desert riparian environments. Reproduction in this part of its range is predominantly asexual and occurs by either the dispersal ...

A University of Arkansas researcher has compared the family trees of fruit flies and their host cacti and found that evolutionary "jumps" to different types of plant hosts have occurred throughout ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. As collections go, cacti would have to be one of the most inconvenient. Dan Torre started amassing these unwieldy, prickly, ...