The Desert Botanical Garden is running a seed bank program to save endangered Arizona desert plants like orchids and cacti. Seeds from rare species are collected, sealed, and frozen in the Ahern ...

Nurtured by Nature, The Mysterious Crested Saguaro, Restoring the Flora, Desert Plants. This week on a special desert plants episode of Arizona Illustrated…how a “nature nerd” turned his passion into ...

plants are definitely seeing the effects of the 0.68 of an inch of rain the Tucson area has had this year. George Montgomery tells the Arizona Daily Star that cholla cacti, saguaros, palo verde trees ...

Wildflower season 2025 is just getting underway in metro Phoenix and it's not going to be a thriller like the colorful eruption that occurred in the spring of 2023. That's because the region has ...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the desert at the western edge of Avra Valley. For the third January in a row, volunteer caretakers at the Waterman Restoration Site are using recycled ...

Recent heavy rainfall in Arizona has provided a reprieve from a long, dry summer. The wet conditions have led to a late-season surge in mosquito populations across the state. While the rain has eased ...

PHOENIX — Amid the Arizona heat, researchers are finding Fremont Cottonwood trees can cool themselves down, but their survival depends on consistent water access. The trees essentially sweat - using ...

A research team led by Prof. Huang Zhenying from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has discovered a remarkable survival strategy—a unique seed dormancy cycling mechanism ...