In the spirit of the season, meet the baseball plant, sometimes sold as the baseball cactus, so named for the ribs that resemble the stitching on a ball. For some gardeners, it’s a catch: slow ...

CACTUS THEIR DIET FOR FOURTEEN DAYS; Californians Intend to Show That the Thornless Plant Is Nutritious. HARD WORK IS DONE ON IT Dr. Landone Thinks Eighteen Hours a Day Can Be Put In with Proper Diet.

This is not uncommon, it turns out, according to Jeff Pavlat of the Austin Cactus and Succulent Society, who identified my daughter’s plant as an Opuntia cacanapa “Ellisiana,” or spineless ...

NORTH TEXAS (CBSNewsTexas.com) – Cactus is a plant that symbolizes the desert southwest. Perhaps no plant you can grow more says "leave me alone" than the thorny versions of these desert ...

The second main spineless cactus is the tuna cactus, which was likely bred by native peoples of Mexico from the wild species Opuntia streptacantha.Likely, the tuna cacti were bred to more easily ...

The plants we call Holiday Cactus may be either Christmas cactus or Thanksgiving cactus. Thanksgiving cactus (Schlumbergera truncatus) has oblong, bright green stem segments 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 inches long ...

This cactus has proven very resilient to our Zone 8 cold ... Mostly considered a novelty plant today, spineless cacti were once bred to be a versatile food crop in the early 1900s by ...

If the first plants you think of when you hear "cactus" are those immense, ... Considerably larger is Opuntia ficus-indica, a shrubby, largely spineless plant that occasionally grows 16 feet tall.

It is hard to imagine when looking at this unassuming, spineless cactus. In fact, you may not even realize it's a plant when you are looking at it unless it happens to be in bloom.