Eriosyce

This is a very beautiful and peculiar plant. The green body contrasts with the black spines. The creamy white flowers with pink hues are very pretty.

Beautiful flowers! This plant has a greyish-white waxy coating (Like the famous Copiapoa cinerea) presumably to prevent dessication in it's extremely dry environment.

Fascinating species with flat grey-violet body. The spines are usually very reduced but it is quite variable.

Neochilenia/Chileorebutia mix, various forms in assortment. Variable and beautiful specimens.

Eriosyce subgibbosa is a very variable species. Two-tone flower with magenta-purple petal tips and greenish-white throat, which give the sensation of being fluorescent. Spines from creamy yellow to dark gray-brown, different from plant to plant.

Geophytic cactus with solitary stems rising barely above ground level, dull dark green, in the sun often tinged with purple. Spines variable, tannish-brown, dull grey or black, straight to curved. Flowers creamy-white to pink.

Neoporteria mix, various forms in assortment. Variable and beautiful specimens.

Eriosyce chilensis is a beautiful cactus with pale green stems cowered with dense whitish-yellow to brownish spines. The flowers are produced in summer, closely packed apically, they are flattish fuchsia red often with white centres.

Eriosyce islayensis is a small cactus with very woolly areoles and spreading spines, but quite variable. The flowers are funnelform, yellow , born from a yellowish woolly crown in summer. Ther fruits are club shaped pinkish to red.

Dark grey green body, stout black and red spines.

Yellow to honey-yellow spines.

This Eriosyce clone stands out for the prolific growth of shoots at its base. Peculiar and uncommon.

Small geophytic cactus with a flattened, dark brown, globular stem and taproot. Features short flattened spines and woolly areoles. Summer blooms in white, pink or yellow.

Eriosyce taltalensis is spiny geophytic cactus with stems rising barely above ground level. The stem is globose or semi-globular dull dark green, in the sun often tinged with purple. The roots are fibrous, arising from a short, conical taproot.

Eriosyce gerocephala, best known as Neoporteria gerocephala is distinguished by thin, soft and flexible cream-white spines.

Eriosyce chilensis v. albiflora is a beautiful cactus with pale green stems cowered with dense whitish-yellow to brownish spines. The flowers are produced in summer, closely packed apically from young areoles, they are flattish, usually creamy white.

Eriosyce gerocephala, best known as Neoporteria gerocephala is distinguished by thin, soft and flexible cream-white spines. Very nice!

Mixed Horridocactus species grown from seed. Very nice selection.

Subterranean Wonder - Tiny cactus very dark stem flattened at soil level and short pectinate spines. The turnip-like root signals its xeric adaptation. An extreme rarity in cultivation. Seldom available commercially.

Grey-brown body, greyish-black spines.

Collected by F.Ritter (FR712) in1958 as Pyrrhocactus saxifragus. Locality Guanillos, Tarapacá, Department of Iquique, Chile

This plant is extremely xerophytic, adapted to very dry soils and highly susceptible to overwatering, especially in poorly ventilated spaces.

Dark olive-green to brown body with pale brown flexible curly spines. Yellow flowers featuring pink stripes.

Pretty pink flowers, whitish base. Fresh green body, brown spines.

Spiny dark olive-green to purple body with white woolly depressed apex. Areoles bear flakes of silky white hairs. Pinkish flowers. Potted in round (5.5 cm Ø) or square (6×6 cm) containers.

Very nice!

The "aurata" is the largest of the Eriosyce, a very spiny barrel cactus with dimensions similar to the Echinocactus grusoni! Strong golden, amber or brown spines curved upwards. This fascinating plant is known by the Chileans with the name of sandillon.

Green, pinkish grey to a deep purple body.