Last May I went to Knowles Canyon Overlook Campground to enjoy magnificent scenery. Quite unexpectedly, I stumbled across small beetles in cactus blooms and an unexpected ecological interaction. As ...

"Good girls go to heaven; bad girls go everywhere." Mae West's words came to mind while reading an academic paper on cactus flowers which described them as "promiscuous" blooms. Perhaps cactus flowers ...

The starfish flower cactus is startling to behold and smell. The cactus has light yellow blooms with red squiggly lines all over. The blooms are almost a foot across, so big that they just about ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Most scientists today agree that North America has four distinct desert regions: the Great Basin, ...

The Pencil Cactus (botanical name: Euphorbia tirucalli) is not a true cactus and produces tight clusters of yellow flowers at the tips of its stems. These are small and easily missed. Note that this ...