The Home You Own Bidding wars and $1,000 succulents: The wild world of rare houseplants. Serious collectors travel to auctions and sleuth online for unusual varieties — often made all the more ...

China has become a major source of demand for wild succulents in the last few years, but an internet campaign there to educate people about the illegal succulent trade has seen some results.

Some cactus smugglers steal seeds from the wild but leave the plant in place. This is illegal, but the logic is that taking seeds in order to sell them or nourish them in a nursery is the only way ...

China has become a major source of demand for wild succulents in the last few years, but an internet campaign there to educate people about the illegal succulent trade has seen some results.

By 2021, after years of exposure, only a few cactuses remained. Researchers chose to remove them from the wild rather than let them die. The final wild straggler was removed in 2023 “because it ...

Durban — An assessment by the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species (IUCN Red List) has revealed a collapse of South Africa’s wild succulent plant ...