Your recently imported ornamental tree might have a stowaway spider or lizard hidden in its branches, a recent study warns.

Native to Mexico, wheel cactus (Opuntia robusta) was likely introduced to Australia, innocently enough, as a hardy ornamental garden plant. It escaped domestication and is now listed among ...

The increasing popularity of imported ornamental plants has resulted in a multibillion ... “It’s hard for the layperson to tell a legal cactus from an endangered one, whereas it’s pretty ...