Growing Cacti in West Texas is an endeavor well-suited to our climate, abundant sunshine and terrain. The Permian Basin provides an ideal environment for both native and non-native cactus species ...

Growing Cacti in West Texas is an endeavor well-suited to our climate, abundant sunshine and terrain. The Permian Basin provides an ideal environment for both native and non-native cactus species ...

Michael Eason sat at his desk scrolling through cactus listings on eBay. Eason — a botanist in Alpine, Texas — was looking for something called the Ariocarpus fissuratus.

The cactus inhabits the Edwards Plateau of central Texas, where it is armed with curved spines and it grows slowly to only about 2 inches in diameter and in height.

Be it now known, once and for all, that while the Lone Star State is so lousy with prickly pear cactus that it is our official state plant, and that, additionally, while Texas is home to more than ...

The rare cactus in the Chihuahuan Desert that stretches from Mexico up into Arizona, New Mexico and Texas are highly valued. Some Golden Barrel plants can sell for $300 to $500, Shapleigh said.

This is a saguaro. It is mainly found in California, Arizona and old Westerns. Not in Texas, which has more than 100 cacti species and none of them are saguaros.