As anyone who’s gotten too close to a jumping cholla cactus can attest, the experience is singularly painful — and difficult to resolve, as the cactus’ spines are particularly stubborn to remove.

Newcomers to the desert are having horrible accidents with cholla. One was a golfer who fell into one making a shot in the rough. Another mountain biker got flipped into major cholla and had to be ...

The jumping cholla cactus’ innocuous, shrub-like appearance belies its prickly spines’ strength: As a new study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B reveals, a single cholla spine embedded ...

A Harris's antelope squirrel amongst the spines of the cholla cactus, where it painstakingly searches for cactus fruit - one of the only sources of moisture around. Whilst filming the amazing Harris’ ...

Spend any amount of time out in the desert, and chances are you've encountered a jumping cholla. It happens to the best of us. The cylindropuntia fulgida, AKA chain-fruit or jumping cholla, has a ...

This is not a story about the Christmas cactus, a succulent with wintertime blooms and Central American origin. The Christmas cholla, or Cylindropuntia leptocaulis, as its scientifically known, bears ...