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Special form with only 5 ribs. Selected specimens. Each one different.
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Pelecyphora aselliformis (commonly known as the "Hatchet Cactus") is among the most famous of all cacti for is unique shaped stem.The f. cristata deviate from the standard species for the stem which is fan shaped up to 10 cm (or more) long with age.
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7 year old plants of 3.5-4 cm in diameter. Very few available. Beautiful.
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Fat yellow and green tubercles, strong and robust growth. Grafted plants, very beautiful.
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Encephalocarpus strobiliformis is a very slow growing, choice Mexican species, commonly called the ''Pinecone Cactus'' for its resemblance to a pine cone. It is often grafted to accelerate and facilitate growth.
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L. principis is one of the most distinctive, and fascinating cacti with long glaucous-green tubercles, tipped by equally long papery spines, it is unlike anything else. It is slow-growing and has a tuberous root.
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The form "incahuasii", with greener and thinner stems, branches profusely and forms large clumps with more than 100 heads.
The flowers are a deep purple and very showy.
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Escobaria missouriensis ssp.navajoensis (Neobesseya) is an interesting type of Escobaria missouriensis but tiny. The stem is flattened only a 1-3 cm broad, so it's a very small species. The flower is yellow, small (2-3 cm). The spines are very short.
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Maihuenia poeppigii is a beautiful and unusual cactus from Patagonia that forms dense cushions up to 1 m in diameter. It is a surprisingly moisture and frost-tolerant cactus. It can also be grown anchored without soil on a roof (like for the sempervivums)
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Coryphantha Wohlschlageri is a small cactus with dark green olive green stems 3 to 5cm and the same diameter. The intensely egg-yellow flowers are 5 to 6 cm in diameter and silky.
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Long slender body, white radial spines, black central spines, creamy-yellow to deep pink flower.
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Seed plants selected for the variegated body. Very beautiful and strange. Variables.
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Ferobergia is made by crossing Ferocactus and Leuchtenbergia. Back cross means that a Ferobergia has been pollinated back with a Ferocactus. These hybrids look more like Ferocactus, with short tubercles and hooked spines. They are quite variable.
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Notocactus magnificus f. albispina is a rare form with silky white spines. The areoles are very close together and form a solid line along the edge of the rib. It is an odd and nice plant. Often young plants splits open at the base (see photo nr. 3)
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Echinocereus sciurus subs. floresii, also known as Echinocereus floresii produces bright pink flowers up to 5 cm long and 7 cm wide the sides of the plant, well below the stem tips.
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Turbinicarpus mombergeri is a naturally occurring hybrid between T. pseudopectinatus and T. laui. This plant pass a pectinate-plumose spine stage in which they are already floriferous. Most of the plants in time develop longer spines. It is quite variable
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Astrophytum myriostigma "tricostatum nudum" is a strikingly pretty cultivar with only three ribs lacking the white flecks that cover the epidermis of the standard myriostigma, giving it a green, gray-green or mauve-green color overall depending on clones.
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Matucana madisoniorum f. variegata is a rare variety with blue-gray stems and yellow patches. Variegated specimens appear rarely (less than 1 in 1000), making them unique and valuable to collectors. Its beauty lies in its colors and distinctive shape.
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Melocactus peruvianus is an Andean specis that comes from the borderline between Peru and Ecuador to Arequipa in Peru. Rare and more cold hardy than others.
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Toumeya papyracantha is a most beautiful cactus but rarely seen in cultivation. It is quite difficult to grow on its own roots, hence for ease of cultivation it is grafted on a very cold resistant Echinocereus. Frost hardy down to -12° (or less).
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Diameter 4-5 cm, seed grown about 5 years old (own roots never grafted).
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Beautiful plant with a fresh green body and very long flexible golden spines.
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Beautiful form that only deviate from the well-known typical form for lacking or mostly lacking white flecks, giving a bright green colour. It is by some considered an extreme form of the subspecies potosinus.
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Plant with a large tap-root, connected to the stem by long slender neck. Seedlings naturally produce the huge tap root, starting from germination, i.e. before the plant stem becomes mature.
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It is the smallest of the Copiapoa which begins to flower when it is only 1-2 cm in diameter. Slowly over time it forms many small heads. Stem soft brown whit minute spines, yellow flower and large tuberous root.
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It is a hardy cactus with long, dark spines which branches profusely, ultimately forming low mats or hemispheric mounds to 100 cm diameter.
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Cumarinia odorata was described as Coryphantha odorata by Bödeker in 1930, transferred into the genus Neobessaya by Werdermann and thence to the new genus Cumarinia by Knuth which, in turn, was reduced to a sub-genus of Neolloydia by Backeberg in 1942.
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It's specific name comes from old Greek and means "red spine" for the colour of its clusters of spines. It's a barrel type of cactus and stay globular during a long period before becoming shortly column-shaped.
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The Echinocactus grusonii v. albispinus looks just like a regular golden barrel but the spines are all glassy-white instead of yellow.This is a very nice plant.
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It has long red or black central spines and white radial spines , the flower is about 5 cmm across.The fruit is edible (if you can reach through the spines). It is said to taste like strawberry.
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It is a very untypical Echinocereus that does not take on the usual hedgehog shape. It is long and vine-like with slim, pendant sprawling stems, usually tangled with many branches up to 250 cm long. Rare in cultivation. Beautiful long orange-red flowers.
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Flowers are gigantic intense hot pink-purple, abundant and scented, 5-7 cm long. Echinocereus reichenbachii is cold-hardy and endures severe frost as long as it is kept dry.
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This is a "must have" plant for any collection, its attractiveness is in the unique pink and violet colour and density of its spines.
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It can grow as many as about 50 stems in a relatively large clump. They bloom from April through July, and are very showy. Blooming generally begins 7 to 10 years after sowing, as the plant matures. In cultivation it often grows for a long time solitary.
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The woolly areoles on the ribs have a felty line between them so it seems like the areoles are connected with each other.
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Blooms are dark scarlet about 10 to 11cm across with a subtle spicy fragrance. This plant is one of the most popular and appreciated Echinopsis cultivars by cacti enthusiast and hybridiser Bob Schick.
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Beautiful species, almost spineless or with very short cream spines.
The flowers are very showy brilliant white, about 20 cm tall. Older plants may produce dozen of flowers at the same time.
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Fantastic plants with tiny white spines and bright red fruits.
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This tiny plant appears fragile but it is very hardy and easy to grow.
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The flowers are numerous and very showy, they are yellow with glossy petals and have a dark purple. It is a pretty plant with white & red spines already an eye catch without any flowers.
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Rather large growing species, fresh green, many straight ribs and yellow-brown spines, wonderful purple flowers!
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Parodia scopa subs. succinea, best known as Notocactus succineus, is distinguished for its stems with abundant dark yellow central spines. The flowers are very showy, glossy yellow.
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This is a beautiful mat forming cactus that grows approximately 20-50 cm high and up to 2 m across (or more) with stout stems and very broad formidable spines.
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Freely clustering succulent with miniature pads. It has no spines, but instead has numerous white hair-like glochids 2-3 mm long in dense clusters. O. microdasys may look soft and touchable, but don't!
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This small geophytic opuntioid looks like a small Tephrocactus geometricus, but the bloom, fruit and the seeds clearly show its autonomous nature.
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Pygmaeocereus bylesianus is a diminutive cactus with short, dense rust-coloured spines and remarkably beautiful white nocturnal flowers which open for just a single night.
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This is a nice clumping plants with lots of large orange red flowers from the lower stem. It has got very long and beautiful amber spines.
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Marvellously bizarre plant for any collection of oddities.
Easy to grow and to boom. The plants on sale are unrootted cuttings.
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Choice Miniature species, very attractive even without flowers.
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White, hairy spines, magnificent.
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Very odd and different cultivar with violet body and short pectinated spines. Really a beautiful plant!
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