Albuquerque-based musician Lukas Scarpetta wanted to form a jazz band that didn’t want to be a traditional jazz band. It was all about branching out, using jazz as a musical starting point but then ...

Diurnal measurements of low temperature (77K) fluorescence at 690 nm (PS II) from north, south, east, and west facing cladode surfaces of Opuntia basilaris in Death Valley, California were made on six ...

I am sure the woman who planted most of my cactus loved pink flowers. While most older gardens like mine contain lots of prickly pears, most of the smaller plants here are in the magenta pink range.

There is a packrat midden in Death Valley that contained fossilized remains of a cactus nearly twenty thousand years old. This proves that Opuntia basilaris was once far more plentiful around southern ...