As anyone who’s gotten too close to a jumping cholla cactus can attest, the experience is singularly painful — and difficult to resolve, as the cactus’ spines are particularly stubborn to remove.

Don't do anything dangerous in the garden while I'm gone, Norman Klein's wife admonished him before leaving on an out-of-town trip. Dangerous? Gardening is supposed to be therapeutic, peaceful, ...

MILLIE: Yes. They’re a modified version of leaves. Over time, they’ve evolved to do a couple of different jobs – like protecting the plant from predators. Cacti also use the spines to trap moisture ...

Edible cactus is also known as nopales (no-PAH-les), nopalitos or cactus pads. It can be found at Mexican grocery stores, specialty produce markets and farmers markets. Edible cactus is characterized ...

It's is easy to remember genus Ferocactus if you think ferocious-cactus. The species are distributed over Southern California, Baja and Arizona are fabulous in the wild and even better tended in our ...

News flash: If you’re new to succulents, beware the prickly pear. It is the one cactus that strikes fear into every desert gardener, and now the drought has made these cactuses available far and wide.

A 2,000-year-old tattooing tool has been discovered in Utah—the oldest artifact of its kind found in the the Western U.S., predating the second oldest by a millennium. The pen-sized tattooing tool was ...

Prickly desert cactus sounds like the last thing you’d want to eat. But -- surprise! -- once the spines are off, cactus is juicy and tender, great in anything from salads and soups to main courses and ...

A woman fell head first into a cactus after losing control of her bike on a trail in the Arizona desert. The footage was recorded by the cyclist's husband in Arizona, America. In the video, the woman ...