Christmas Cactus is a succulent which means it holds water in its leaves. Unlike its desert cousins, it thrives in soil rich humus soils rather than sandy soil. But beware! It does not want to be ...

Every thriving garden starts with a secret ingredient underfoot: humus. Scientists have long sought to understand humus, as shown by trailblazing forest soils researcher S.A. Wilde's musings in ...

It has relatively small, scale-like bright red flowers and yellow egg-shaped fruit. HABITAT: This cactus grows on bare rock with a minimum humus-soil cover in hammocks near sea level. RANGE: This ...