A Florida landscaper was arrested Wednesday after authorities said he chopped down and stole an exotic caucus from the front of a home and strapped it on the roof of his car.

Fittingly, Florida's most common native cactus is an Opuntia called prickly pear (O. humifusa). This spiny, generally sprawling plant, up to 3 feet tall, features flattened stems and branches ...

The Cape Sable thoroughwort, Florida semaphore cactus and aboriginal prickly apple cactus are three very different-looking Florida flora. The Cape Sable thoroughwort is a showy but dainty little herb ...

The cactus (Pilosocereus millspaughii) was discovered in 1992, and the Florida Keys population has never been huge, around 150 stems. ... The cactus can grow to over 20 feet tall, ...

According to Guinness World Records, the tallest cactus ever recorded was 78 feet tall.The armless giant growing in Cave Creek was measured in 1978. However, the cactus only held the title for ...

While they can grow to unique heights, one cactus holds the world record for being the tallest ever recorded. Here's what to know about the tallest saguaro on record, how tall they usually grow ...

Ah, Florida! We lucky folks live in a land of lush, tropical foliage that's stirred by balmy breezes and watered year-round by warm, gentle rains. No, we don't: The majority of our rainfall occurs ...

Ridged cactus coral are just one of a variety of species rescued from Florida’s waters after coral reefs in the state began undergoing a major disease outbreak that started in 2014. The aquarium ...

The starfish flower cactus is startling to behold and smell. The cactus has light yellow blooms with red squiggly lines all over. The blooms are almost a foot across, so big that they just about ob… ...

A tall cactus found only in Florida’s Key Largo is the U.S.’s first species to go extinct from sea-level rise. ... It is eradicating the very species that make up the fabric of our natural world.

South Florida may have seen the first documented local extinction related to climate change in the U.S. A recent study found that the last patch of Key Largo tree cactus declined and died out as ...

Solid Cactus, the Web design and e-commerce firm based in Shavertown, has been sold to a Web marketing company in Jacksonville, Fla. Cactus will retain its name, two local offices and its managemen… ...