By Leonie Joubert Sometimes words fall hopelessly short. This might explain the silences between the two botanists as their ...

After thousands of rare Chilean cacti were found in the house of an Italian collector, a years-long trial slowly unravelled ...

A type of euphorbia, a spiny-desert succulent, can cause actual blindness. Another friend was lying on a tarp gazing up at the forest canopy when a drop of the milky-white latex from a euphorbia ...

Some cacti and succulents have swollen roots that store up water for the days when it doesn't rain; sometimes in the desert it doesn't rain for months. The tallest cactus in the world, growing up ...