Most of the Sonoran Desert’s cacti are beautiful to behold, but one species can have a nasty side when encountered by people. It’s the chain fruit cholla — also known as the jumping cholla for its ...

Elena Acoba Special To The Arizona Daily Star Apr 8, 2012 Apr 8, 2012 One of the earliest crops of the season is ready for harvest. Flower buds from staghorn, buckhorn and pencil cholla have a subtle ...

One of the most popular trails in Phoenix is reopening. Cholla Trail, on the east side of Camelback Mountain, reopens on Friday, Sept. 30, after a 2½-year closure. The trail was closed for ...

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 ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - A 5-month-old Chihuahua dubbed "Cholla Charlie" has found his forever home after getting into a prickly situation in Surprise last month. After the puppy was found covered ...

You’ve seen prickly pear jam at the supermarket, but did you know many varieties of cholla cactus are edible straight from the ground? According to the James Beard Foundation’s Foods of the Southwest ...

The desert floor just east of San Diego was a stark contrast this spring to the showy display of flowers during 2017’s super bloom. In March, San Diego State University researcher Lluvia ...

FORT McDOWELL, Ariz. — If you play either — or both — courses at We-Ko-Pa in the Sonoran desert just outside Scottsdale, Ariz., and find yourself hopelessly absorbed in your golf game, stop. Just take ...

The Cholla Cactus Garden, located about 12 miles south of the park's North Entrance, is home to one of the few stands of cholla cactus in the park. The short, quarter-mile Cholla Cactus Garden Nature ...