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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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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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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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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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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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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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The long tubed flowers are a beautiful deep red. They bloom from April through June, and are very showy.
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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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This is a very nice plant. The varietal name ‘inermis’ means unarmed, referring to the lack of spines.
The heavy and waxy flowers are red or orange with green stigma in the centre.
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Echinocereus viridiflorus is a small, globular to cylindrical cactus with colorful spines and spring-blooming yellow-green funnel-shaped flowers. Its resilience to cold makes it a favorite among succulent enthusiasts in cooler climates.
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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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This tiny plant appears fragile but it is very hardy and easy to grow.
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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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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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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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The perfect symmetry of white spines & brown areoles make this plant very attractive even when not in bloom. It's definitely a must for any cactus collector!
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Rebutia pygmaea is a very small clumping species. The flowers from the basal parts of the stem, usually are salmon pink, but may varies from white to pink, red, salmon and orange. It has a heavy tap root that may exceed the size of the plant above soil l
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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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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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Small spineless clumping segmented succulent, that grows as a small erect segment chains. Very ornamental with bright yellow-brown glochids and white felt. Flowers white.
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Thelocactus hybrid matudae x rinconensis is a roundly flat and glaucous-grey cactus with stright spines. Depending on exposure and irrigation the stem is either green or glaucous-grey and spines my became very long and strong.
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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.
