Ashley Bruschi, 34, who posts her rare succulent collection on Instagram as @ambsucculents, hasn’t been to an auction but says she has seen “crazy stuff at flower shows — people spend tens ...

Rise of the plant smugglers: Craze for rare succulents fuels black market - with collectable cacti selling for hundreds. Scientists at Kew Gardens say the craze for rare plants started during Covid 19 ...

Budding plant enthusiasts can rest assured many succulents in the marketplace are acquired legally and ethically—but wade deep enough into the world of ultra-rare succulents, and sketchy ...

South Africa's succulents—small, fleshy, green plants sometimes shaped like roses or stars, and often found peeping out between rocks in dry areas—are sought after by an increasingly ...

SANTA CRUZ — Emeritus Director of Research at the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanic Garden Stephen McCabe has recently described and named two new species of succulent plants, which he found ...

Stephen McCabe, emeritus director of research at the UCSC Arboretum & Botanic Garden, has described two new species of rare succulents in the genus Dudleya.McCabe identified the new species after ...

Now, the social media houseplant boom may be contributing to a black market for rare succulents. Read more: Plant DTC companies like The Sill, Horti, and Bloomscape are seeing surging demand as ...

South Africa's succulents - small, fleshy, green plants sometimes shaped like roses or stars, and often found peeping out between rocks in dry areas - are sought after by an increasingly ...

South Africa’s succulents – small, fleshy, green plants sometimes shaped like roses or stars, and often found peeping out between rocks in dry areas – are sought after by an increasingly ...