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A.k.a. Bird's nest Mammillaria, this is a wonderful old favourite cultivar with curly golden-yellow spines. A plant soon forming many heads. The new growth is very attractive, the long, entwining yellowish spines soon form a mat. A real beauty.
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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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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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The flowers colour range from pure white to dark red, including yellow, orange and violet. Cool and dry winter culture helps bring it into its greatest splendour. Magnificent and very easy to grow.
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Selected clone with bright orange flowers. This is a magnificent and very easy to grow plant. Cool and dry winter culture helps bring it into its greatest splendour.
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Lobivia shaferi is a very spiny clustering species with many basal and lateral offshoot.
No cultivation difficulties! Delicate golden flowers!
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Lobivia lateritia var citriflora is a pretty species, with a low thick flat to cylindrical stem. Lght yellow flowers, some almost white.
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Exceptionally beautiful, very long, amber to grey-brown spines. Grey/blue body. Few specimens available!
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Strongly spined and hardy species from Argentina with long stiff yellow translucent spines with a red base on a bright green background. This is one of the most admired species in cactus collections.
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Flat dull green body, ribs with tubercles, very nice pinkish flower!
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Nice slow growing species, stem flattened, spines addpressed agaist the stem of the plant. Generally solitary but old specimens may cluster from the base.
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Beautiful multicolored hybrids between Soherensia and Echinopsis and Trichocereus.
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F. acanthodes grows slowly, forming in age a mound of thorns and then a narrow column up to 2m tall, with attractive curved spines that partly obscure the green stem. The spine colour is red but also yellow or pale grey.
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The "dadakii" form is globular, depressed on top, with about 12 ribs. It branches profusely from the base forming soon dense clumps. The spines are all radial, usually 8, brownish passing to white, curved backwards and twisted.
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Sometimes referred to as F. pottsii var. alamosanus, this rare and distinctive barrel cactus with dull grey-green stem.It has relatively delicate yellow or reddish spines for a Ferocactus. Very attractive species.
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F. chrysacanthus "rubrispinus" is a cultivated form with stunning red spines. It is one of the best and colourfull Ferocacti though quite slow growing. This plant is densely spined and because of that, will tolerate full sun. Beautiful!!!
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The 'victoriensis' variety is lesser common than the standard "echidnae", it has stems that are more cylindrical and sturdy, straight central spines longer than 4,5 cm. The flowers are yellow with reddish tones.
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Ferocactus horridus “brevispinus” is a solitary fast growing little barrel cactus with quite short and stocky cental spine (not enough to call it curved!) This plant becomes very nice when a bit older.
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Ferocactus macrodiscus a.k.a. "Candy cactus" is a medium sized barrel cactus with a depressed stem and blue-green epidermis. Growth from seed is quite rapid and plants will flower when only a few cm across. Flowers are white with purple striped petals.
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Beautiful species. The F. "alamosesis" has few wide ribs which are a dull blue-grey in colour. The areoles are round bigand woolly with few but strong creamy-white to pale-brown spines.
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Ferocactus santamariae is a massively spined barrel cactus with stout, fierce red spines. The flower yellow or straw-yellow with a pale-red center line on the petals, and pleasant-smelling. It is a close relative of Ferocactus peninsulae.
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Ferocactus schwarzii is a solitary barrel cactus with bright gold coloured spines. At a first glance the young specimens looks more like a Echinocactus grusonii than a Ferocactus. As they age the number of spines decreases to 0-2.
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Red decorative spines, curved central spines. Colorfull.
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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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Solitary cactus with long sharp spines. The plants in cultivation are 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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# # # SPECIAL PLANT # # # (Selected specimen) A wonderful kaleidoscope of colors. Grafted on Myrtillocactus.
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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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Forms nice clumbs with olive-green stems, yellow-brown spines, yellow flower.
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On beautiful summer days one can admire the splendour of its beautiful yellow flower, larger than the plant itself. The diminutive stem is a splendid shining dark-purple, with ginger spines.
Family: Cactaceae (Cactus Family)
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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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# # # SPECIAL PLANT # # # (Selected specimen)
Diameter 5 cm. This is a seed grown specimen, only this one available!
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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.
Syn: Ferocactus pilosus
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Plants raised from seed. Variable.
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The Astrophytum capricorne v. niveum, named "niveum" (snow) for its white stem, has bright flecks that intensify in the sun. It blooms profusely in summer with yellow flowers and a red throat, offering a striking contrast.
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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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Nice solitary, or slowly clustering, flattened ball-shaped cactus. It has expressive shining yellow flowers.
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The stems are flattened globular, measuring up to 15 cm in diameter, initially spiny and gradually becoming more woolly. In mid-summer, multiple glossy yellow flowers bloom around the densely woolly stem apex.
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Flowers are very showy, light purplish-pink with a pinkish brown midstripe and paler margins, about 20-30 mm in diameter. The fruit are club shaped, pale scarlet 25-30 mm long.
