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This is an almost spineless plant. If you like deep purple-bodied plants, you simply must get it (if you haven't already).
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Fascinating species with flat grey-violet body. The spines are usually very reduced but it is quite variable.
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Peculiar species distinguished for its small sized yellowish blooms, very short flattened foliaceous central spines and few radial spines.
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The smooth green epidermis show up the felty areoles.
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Strange asymmetrically tuberculate stems that grow in tall columns or twist and wind around each other like snakes. Produces lots of red tubular flowers throughout the summer.
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This is a small growing and easy to to flower species with a naturally dark body and nicely contrasting bright yellow flowers.
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Compact, rather low body, fast growing, many purple-pink flowers. Forms large emispheric mounds in time.
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Pygmaeocereus familiaris is one of the smallest cactus, that in nature forms cushions with many green stems usually less than to 2 centimeters in length. The funnel-shaped, white flowers are up to 8 cm long and strongly perfumed.
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Mammillaria marcosi is a beautiful plant with white radial spines and dark reddish-brown centrals. It will slowly forms irregular clumps with dense spination. It may grow up to 25 cm in diameter, with up to 30 heads.
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F. schilinzkyana is a tiny odd species with small heads and friendly short spines. On beautiful summer days one can admire the splendour of its beautiful yellow flower, larger than the plant itself.
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Clumping cactus, irregularly forming clusters up to 1 m across or more. Flowers large, spectacular, zygomorphic bright scarlet. Not the most easy to grow but worth trying. Be careful with too much water and give it good ventilation. Strong spination.
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This plant is easily distinguishable due to its small size and the abundant production of shoots around the base. The flowers are colorful. It blooms profusely! The size, shape, and color of the spines are variable.
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F. reppenhagenii as old plants are of a small diameter, nearly cereoid growing with usually less than 13 ribs .
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The Mexican fire barrel cactus is one of the most most spectacular species in this genus. Blessed with fantastic coral red spines. Notable white hairs on the areoles with age.
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Plants raised from seed. Variable.
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A. myriostigma quadricostatum was first described in 1841 by M. Mittler who wrote "The body of the plant is of elongated round form and has four ribs". This form deviates from the well-known typical form for having four ribs instead of five.
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Outstanding and incomparable. The flowers have a shocking yellow-green throat surrounded by a contrasting fuchsia corolla.
The inner yellow is like the phosphorescent colour of some pen marker or even more luminescent.
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M. bocasana var multilanata has round soft stems with an extreme abundance of white woolly hairs and short hooked central spines. The flowers are numerous, large and pink.
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Gymnocalycium cv. RED BLUSH is a freely offsetting, very easy to grow and very free-flowering cactus. It is a highly decorative plant with purple blushed stems and nice pink blooms.
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Sulcorebutia arenacea, is a choice solitary, user-friendly cactus, with perfectly neat, symmetrical spination and profuse yellowish-orange (or rarely magenta) flowers. The spines are pectinate and held so tightly that give a sandy effect.
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Greyish-green body, rather short greyish spines, many yellow flowers.
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F. viridescens subs. littoralis is a solitary barrel cactus wider than tall. The spines are dense, pink or yellowish, becoming duller by age or turning yellow or horn-colored. The flowers are greenish yellow or golden-yellow with brownish midstripes.
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Almost white body, nice large yellow flower.
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E. nana (= E. melanostele subsp. nana) is a columnar cactus densely covered with white hair distinguished from the standard E. melanostele for its smaller stems and the wool on the cephallum is white to pale yellow (mostly yellow-brown in E. melanostele).
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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.
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Mammilloydia candida called 'Snowball' is a choice cactus with a so dense snowy white, spination, that its body appears hidden by spines. Mammilloydia are clearly related to the genus Mammillaria, but it is usually recognized as a segregate genera.
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Long spines, variable in color and lenght. Flowers White, yellow, orange or red.
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Two-tone flowers. Nice.
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Lobivia albolanata (syn: Lobivia densispina v. albolanata). Soft white spines.
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Small-sized, with a body ranging from grey-white to bluish-green, hooked spines, and striking pink flowers.
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This is a dwarf form of trichocereus that branches profusely from the base. It can form large mounds with dozens of branches in a few years. Reminiscent of a great chamaecereus silvestris. Beautiful and easy to grow.
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Echinofossulocactus (Stenocactus) mix, various forms in assortment. Variable and beautiful specimens.
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Syn: Melocactus deinacanthus ssp. florschuetzianus
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Chunky semi-clumping stems in different spine colors, with nice magenta flowers. Winter hardy/Winterhart.
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This is the classic columnar cactus that is often seen represented as a symbol of the desert. It produces lots of small yellowish green flowers. Polaskia chichipe is cultivated for its edible fruits in Mexico.
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Astrophytum coahuilense with five ribs, has a surprising similarity to Astrophytum myriostigma. However, it is different in all characteristics regarding flower, fruit and seed. Flowers are yellow with a red center (like those of Astrophytum capricorne).
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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.
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Bergerocactus emoryi, the golden snake cactus, is a golden spined shrubby cactus that often forms large thicket of stems to several meters in diameter. The flowers are diurnal and yellow.
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Mammillaria pringlei is one of the few Mammillaria that is completely covered with yellow spines. Probably it has one of the longest non stop blooming streak of any cactus. Flowers can appear any time of the year, mostly from early spring to late summer.
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Huge yellow flowers.
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Sulcorebutia breviflora is a very free flowering most attractive cactus. It distinguish for the very numerous yellow blooms. It clusters heavily in cultivation producing a nice patch over time.
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Astrophytum capricorn v. Crassispinoides is a form of A. capricorne v. minor flowering with a pure yellow flower. The spines are creamy white, yellowish or tan, thin, soft and curled. It is really beautiful and unmistakable even without flowers.
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