The plant doesn’t care, but it is not pleasing to look at. If I’m right, and this is a climbing cactus, those cuts create new growth coming from the ribs just below the cut.

Someone from the BLM called to ask if the Forest Service wanted to come collect cactus plants there before the area was plowed. “And we’re like, why, yes, we do,” Veerman says.

The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its thorn-covered small fruit ...

Cacti are taken very seriously in Arizona. Scottsdale police arrested a 16-year-old Gilbert boy yesterday for cutting the arm off a cactus in Pinnacle Peak Park.

Arizona's saguaro cacti, a symbol of the U.S. West, are leaning, losing arms and in some cases falling over during the state's record streak of extreme heat, a scientist said on Tuesday.

The plants for which Rilée Leblanc, the “cactus doctor,” cares so passionately are in the midst of a renaissance in Arizona, but homeowners’ knowledge has not kept up with the trend ...

Pencil cactus, African milkbush, finger tree Light: full sun to partial shade Height: 20 to 30 feet Spread: 6 to 10 feet USDA Hardiness Zones: 11-12 Origin: Eastern and Southern Afric… ...