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A beautiful bloomer, Chamaecereus hybrid (Chamaelobivia) cv. LINCOLN SUNKISSED, features gorgeous yellow petals tipped deep orange from spring to summer.
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G. spegazzinii var. unguispinum is a rare mutant distinguished from the type species for its very short spine clusters. It has only 5 short spines less than 1 cm long, these are stout, eagle claw-shaped, twisted and curved gracefully outward and downward.
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The flowers are almost white with only a hint of pink in the outer petals. The throat is very dark purple, almost black. In the typical cv. ANEMONE the flowers have a more rosy color.
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The flowers are different every time the plant blooms but always beautiful, ranging in color from red to purple with a yellow or cream border.
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A beautiful bloomer, Chamaecereus hybrid (Chamaelobivia) cv. LINCOLN SORBET, features gorgeous flowers from spring to summer. The centre of the flower is white and the petals tips are bright purple-violet.
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Mammillaria herrerae is small cactus that look like a little golf ball with dense addpressed, white spines. The flowers are quite large for a Mammillaria, pale pink to red-violet and very showy.
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Flowers 12-13 cm Ø with very toothed apricot yellow inner petals tipped dark orange. The next row of petals is apricot with a red-purple center stripe. Red-violet outer petals. Hybridized by Anton Maas.
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Great hybrid with beautiful flowers from the same breeding line as "Sunny"!
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Dark red beauty. This is one of the varieties with darker flowers, the deep red petals have the appearance and texture of velvet. It is not possible to render the color intensity of these flowers in the photo.
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Discocactus horstii is a small solitary cactus with a blackish discoid body typical of this flat and globular genus. The cephalium is covered by the flowers that come out of it. These cacti possess an exotic appearance shared by no other cactus.
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Juvenile specimens initially have short spines, but as the plants grow, they form completely thornless areoles. Adult specimens are completely nude and particularly beautiful. RARE!!!
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Flower 16 cm (Pisac x Orange California)
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The petals are yellow with red median line, variable (but always stunning). This cultivar is also known as "FIRECHIEF", "MARDI GRAS", "FLAMETHROWER" and "FLAMBEAU". Native to the USA, it is similar to "SOM AEY", a rare Thai hybrid.
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Mixed Thelocactus species grown from seed. Very nice selection.
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Crazy flowers that vary with each bloom. Inner petals from entire to thin and deeply thoothed, dull orange yellow with a lighter base. The pinkish to light purple outer petals are only visible when the inner petals are thoothed.
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First Light is a classic Trichocereus hybridized by Mark Dimmitt. Inner petals light pink with a darker magenta midstipe. The back petals almost completely magenta, the throat is yellow. This hybrid blooms multiple times a year.
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This HWH is very floriferous. The first flowers appear already on plants with a height of about 12 cm. The flowers are numerous beautiful, bright and spectacular!
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H. 3,5-4 (grafted on very cold resistant Echinocereus)
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Dwarf form, with huge violet-pink flowers. Beautiful.
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Dark olive-brown stem, very flat, growing at ground level. Short spines pressed against the body. Beautiful plant but very slow growing.
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Special form with only 5 ribs. Selected specimens.
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Seedling 2+ cm. Selected plants with star shaped body.
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U. buiningii characterized by a dark-green to puple-red body is the most diminutive and also the most floriferous of the genus. It is a very pretty plant but tricky to cultivate and almost always grown grafted onto columnar cacti. Very rare. OWN ROOT !!!!
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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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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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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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Oreocereus leucotrichus is a small shrubby columnar cactus, forming dense broad clumps covered in spines. It is a much variable species.
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Spectacular fiery red flowers. It flowers profusely from spring to autumn. Truly an extraordinary plant.
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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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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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Delightful cultivar with finger-like stems. The true "HUBUKI" is rarely seen in cultivation. This beautiful cultivar is often bewildered with the more common cv. HOBOKI wich is very similar but not identical.
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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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This unique and unmistacable species has plump, soft, flattened or globose , dark green stems remenbering an unripe tomato. Large pink flower open in spring. The thick tuberous root requires adequately sized pots.
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Small clump-forming species. Heavy bloomer, it starts producing flowers when still very young. Flowers bright pink in sping. Grows together with Mammillaria wrightii v. wilcoxii.
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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.
