It holds sacred the peyote cactus, which grows naturally only in some parts of southern Texas and northern Mexico. Peyote has been used spiritually in ceremonies, and as a medicine by Native ...

Unfortunately, reawakened attention is pushing its natural source, the small, slow-growing peyote cactus, to the brink of extinction. In a new study published in Molecular Plant, Weizmann ...

Keeper Trout, a research scientist and co-founder of Texas-based Cactus Conservation Institute, remembers how abundantly peyote grew in the region during the 1970s. It’s all but disappeared.