The Peruvian apple cactus is exactly what it sounds like; it is native to Peru and tastes like an apple with a lot more juice ...

Cereus repandus, the Peruvian apple cactus, is a South American species that does well in our area except when we have a frost or freeze. The fruit are edible.

Last winter’s snow and its resultant plant damage to my garden is becoming a mere memory now. I have removed the remnants of frozen succulent spoilage and tree branch breakage.

A hair sample from an ancient trophy head found buried in Peru reveals that the victim consumed a psychoactive plant prior to death. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Confrontations between protesters and the Peruvian authorities have left at least 25 dead and hundreds injured. Nowhere may tensions be higher than in the highland city of Ayacucho.

Police seized a suspected Peruvian Torch cactus, a variety which can be processed to produce mescaline, in a raid at a Newcastle city centre shop. Two men, aged 44 and 76, were arrested on suspicion ...

The cactus pear is not yet included in the FAO's agricultural output statistics, but Taguchi cited the rapid expansion of CactusNet, opens new tab, a contact network of cactus researchers and ...

The hardy cactus — fond of heat and aridity, adapted to rough soils — might not seem like the picture of a climate change victim. Yet even these prickly survivors may be reaching their limits ...

After rains, the inside of a Peruvian apple cactus is a lot like a fresh garden cucumber. The water pressure inside is significant; the outer epidermal layers aren't accustomed to it stretched to ...

These are just a few of the geoglyphs in southern Peru, known as the Nazca lines, thought to be at least 2,000 years old. ... a cactus, a llama, a flower. Known as the Nazca lines, ...

Lima, Aug 26 (EFE). — Peruvian archaeologists have discovered a 4,000yearold cactus in perfect condition amid the ruins at El Paraiso, the site of the Andean nation’s oldest temples.The cactus ...