A rose may be a rose, but the products of the Florida Cactus Nursery near Apopka are true individualists of the plant kingdom. In fact many of these members of the vegetable domain look as if they ...

Thousands of cactus nestle side by side, prickly cheek to thorny jowl, knobby little plants topped with soft, glowing, silken flowers.No, this is not the Arizona desert. It’s the Florida Cactus ...

A rare tree cactus that grew for decades hidden by a tangle of mangrove trees on Florida's Key Largo has lost its battle with rising sea levels and other pressures.. It's now considered locally ...

If you admire ferocious plants, however, Opuntia tunicata, just 20 inches tall, will delight you. A cylindrical-stemmed cactus, it produces an incredible number of menacing, interlaced spines that ...