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Astrophytum hybrid CAP-AS (A. capricorne x A. asterias) variegated form. Selected seedlings with variegated bodies, various patterns and colors. Each specimen is different and unique.
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The flowers are absolutely stunning, with cream colored inner petals and avocado green outer petals. Rare and particular.
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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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Ferocactus horridus has 4 central spines, forming a cross. Principal central spine flattened and hooked. This selected form has cremy-white to honey spines.
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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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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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Measures: 1.2-1.6 cm. Considering the miniature size of Blossfeldias and their very slow growth rate, it is exceptionally rare to come across specimens like these, GROWN FROM SEED. The plants are flowering size. EXTREMELY RARE!!! Never grafted.
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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 selected plants with faintly speckled epidermis forming elaborated designs.
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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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The Astrophytum ornatum is the largest and easiest to grow and also the fastest of the Astrophytums. Spherical when young to columnar when mature, some specimen develop nice twists with age.
Ribs have characteristic cross bands of wooly scales.
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Solitary or slowly clumping columnar with dull greenish or greyish-green stems with a densely woolly apex. Fiercely spined.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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Small plant geophytic cactus with very tuberous root which remains half buried in habitat. Flower up to 3 cm in diameter range from brown to deep rose red to a pale yellowish rose and rare, but possible withalmost white.
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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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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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A beautiful variety, sought after by collectors for its attractive mahogany red spines and rings of light purple flowers in spring (From the typical locality)
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Outstanding harmless cactus with soft wide, papery spines. It will slowly growing up to up to 30 cm tall forming a segmented succulent bush.
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This is one the best and very priced species.
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Free branching species that forms readily large clumps with several stems. Flowers yellow. Rare.
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Blooms in several waves with large, almost white flowers featuring a darker cream-pink midline. Stems thick with fat, flat tubercles that have polygonal bases, allowing them to fit together seamlessly without chins.
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Grey-green stem, long greyish to yellow-brown spines. Flower pink to purple.
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The plant's body take a nice purple-red colouring, hence the name rubescens (red)
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Plants with robust hooked spines variable in colour from yellow to brown, to black. White wooly areoles. Easy to grow and flower. Beautiful!!!
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Flattened stems with wide, polygonal-rounded (hexagonal or pentagonal based) tubercles. Flowers silvery-white or pinkish.
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It is a well known cultivar characterized by very reduced or absent spines, free branching, and with small pink flowers.
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"Arizona Snowcap" shows an odd thickening and shortening of the spines, resulting in a most attractive, unusual candid white looking plants.
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Mammillaria nivosa is one of the wooliest mams with beautiful golden-yellow-spines.
After producing several rounds of blooms earlier in the year it will give strikingly bright red fruit.
This is a really beautiful cactus.
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After several years the old plants divide at their apex, ramifying dichotomously (to form two or more distinct joints) and in 10-15 years they forms small colony. It is a pleasing sight, even in the depths of winter.
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Now often considered a synonym of Mammillaria sheldonii, to which it shows only modest differences: absence of central spines and larger flowers with a characteristic distinctive orange pistil.
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Small clustering species with fine, feathery, flexible, somewhat pectinated, white to almost orange spines. Flowers with pink midstripes at the end of winter in February-March.
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M. schiedeana subs. giselae f. albiflora is a rare cultivar that forms a graceful yellowish-white puff with eventual offsets and nice pure white flowers. It could be a cross between M. giselae and M. carmenae. it is one of the most fascinating cultivars.
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The whole habitat of this plant (discovered only in 1997) disappeared under the water of a man-made dam. It is extinct in nature. The stem covered by numerous hairlike radial spines, giving the plant a shaggy appearance.
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Robust stems, later cylindrical, with reddish spination and pink flowers! The spines increase their red color and density as the plant ages. Super plants.
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Flowers wide purplish pink ,style pink with nice green stigma-lobes
Bloomis in April and the flowers remain open for several days (at least three)
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The Matucana calliantha is a nice little clustering cactus that has exquisite, large, deep red, zygomorfic flowers. It blooms throughout late Spring or early Summer in several flushes over a long period.
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Matucana madisoniorum , sometimes found listed as Submatucana, is an attractive small globular plant with ribs resembling Lophophora, the ones that lack spines look so much like peyote that the uninformed may think they actually are.
