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Cactus with an impressive array of straight spines up to 8 cm long—light brown, beige, or often bluish—somewhat angled, rather stout, and diverging from the stem. The flowers are very showy, purplish, and measure around 7–8 cm in length.
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Stunning hybrids featuring vividly colored blooms, with petals spanning deep pink, red, and electric purple. Highly variable.
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Lobivia sublimiflora (Syn: L. densispina v. sublimiflora, L. tiegeliana v. sublimiflora) is covered with diaphanous, pectinate spines with blacker central spine. The beautiful flowers are very large lustrous salmon-pink to carmine in colour.
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Among the tiniest in its genus, this cactus reaches just 4–5 cm at maturity and stays that size. It grows in small clusters and produces a woolly cephalium with long, cream-white, delightfully fragrant flowers.
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Tall, columnar, slow-growing cactus, usually trunkless, forming numerous tall, ascending columnar stems with 5–7 prominent ribs. Branching occurs mostly at or near the base in a candelabra-like arrangement. Mature plants develop longer spines.
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Small, freely clumping stems entirely covered in dense white spines form mounds 30+ cm wide with 10 to 100 stems. Charming small pink flowers appear at stem tips.
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Entirely without spines or glochids, this plant can be touched safely. It develops appealing groups of oval to gently elongated cladodes, an excellent choice for those preferring non-spiny ornamental plants.
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A remarkable species featuring flattened spherical stems clad in dense, hair-like, yellowish-white, contorted spines, giving a soft, cloud-like look. Its magenta flowers are vivid and dramatic.
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Highly distinctive species with long, thin, soft, and flexible spines ranging from white to creamy-yellow. In some specimens, spine color deepens to beige, light brown, or nearly black, giving each plant a unique appearance.
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Mammillaria surculosa (Syn: Dolichnthele surculosa) is a low-growing widely spreading cactus forming crowded mats or mounds of small heads and relatively large, bright yellow flowers.
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White-woolly depressed apex. Rounded stems with about 35 slender ribs featuring sharp, wavy edges. Radial spines are bristle-like, silky, near-transparent (whitish-cream), while centrals are thicker, longer, and amber to tan-colored.
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A small, cereus-like Mammillaria: solitary when young, it forms irregular clusters with age. Stems are hidden beneath dense hooked spines. Showy, long, bright red, zygomorphic flowers are adapted for hummingbird pollination.
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Flowers ranging in color from orange to dark purple red.
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A small, dark-green globose cactus, often forming clusters, with grooved rhomboid tubercles. Spines are short, slender, yellow-reddish and slightly curved, with a longer central one. Spring brings many striking pink-violet flowers with a red throat.
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Very long, flat, and papery spines. A stunning plant even when not in bloom. Flowers white and feature a pink midline on the petals.
Previously classified under different names, such as E. multicostatus, E . zacatecasensis and E.phyllacanthus.
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A slow-growing solitary cactus with flattened, muted grey-green or blue stems. Only three recurved spines bent tightly to its body - nature's lesson in economical beauty.
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Flower variable, yellow-orange to bright red, usually with a white or cream-yellow throat ring. Stem grey-green, olive to brownish-green, bearing heavy, curved spines.
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This densely spined cactus forms expansive cushions up to 80 cm across, with stems always clustered. Its dagger-shaped spines start pinkish, orange, or red, then fade to white or yellow with brown tips. It bears remarkable pink blooms.
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Caespitose cactus with impressive spines. In cultivation, spine length and strength vary greatly with exposure. Central spines diverge up to 9 cm, radial ones up to 4 cm. Blooms with huge pink flowers.
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Solitary, slow-growing geophytic cactus with equilateral triangular tubercles slightly protruding above ground; its substantial tuberous stem is entirely subterranean.
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Dark grey green body, stout black and red spines.
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A solitary cactus with a continuous row of woolly white felt and black spines running along its ribs, resembling a fine-toothed comb. Its body ranges from greenish-red to reddish-brown, sometimes nearly black. Flowers diurnal yellow.
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Lobivia pentlandii v. varians has yellow, orange or pink flowers with a paler throat (hence the name "varians", variable). The spines may become extremely long as the plant ages (up to 25 cm long!).
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Spines regularly arranged in spirals, and firm, ashy white, grey, or pale tan in colour, with the tips of the largest spines reddish brown or reddish black, all straight. Flowers are apure white, pale rose-pink, or pale lavender-pink.
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11 cm blooms with pink-red inner petals (orange/purple hints) and longer yellow outers, mimicking a solar eclipse. Golden throat and ringed stamens perfect this celestial display.
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Matucana paucicostata is a ribbed globular cactus often branching basally to form small clusters. It is one of the smallest Matucana species. Flowers are very showy, purplish to carmine red, funnel shaped, slightly curved (zygomorphic).
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Small, globular stem covered with fine, dense, white hairs, featuring abundant vivid orange flowers.
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Elongated segments clad in long ivory spines - deceptively flexible yet sharply pointed. The golden flowers seem almost incongruous on this architectural wonder. So scarce that even specialty nurseries rarely list it. For xerophile connoisseurs.
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F. carminifilamentosa is a morphological form of the variable Frailea pumila,
distinguished by its carmine-colored filaments (hence the name). Bright yellow flowers emerge from the top.
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A solitary Gymnocalycium that grows to impressive dimensions. The most surprising trait? Wet spines flush bright red, producing a dramatic and temporary color display that fascinates collectors.
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Sulcorebutia mairanana is a nomen nudum (undescribed name) used in Karel Kníže catalogue (field number KK1811) to indicate a plant from Mairana in Bolivia. This controversial plant probably correspond to Sulcorebutia albissima (a form of Rebutia mentosa).
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Five ribs and a striking resemblance to A. myriostigma. Different in terms of flower, fruit and seed which resemble the Astrophytum capricorne. Stems covered with tiny fluffy, wool-like flecking for a velvety appearance.
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Dull green body, stout greyishbrown spines, robust red or pink flower. Winter hardy/Winterhart.
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A mix of surprises! These hybrids boast sharp ribs in gray-green, sometimes with brown, purple, and light bands. Their flowers? A color palette from greenish-white to bright pink! Each plant is uniquely unpredictable.
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Short grey-brown, downward facing spines. Flattened body, olive-green to brown. Limited numbers available!
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Showy red flowers. In full sun the spines become very long and dense.
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Also known as Lobivia grandiflora, this shortly columnar cactus bears glorious crimson flowers. Its blooming display is exceptionally colorful and highly ornamental.
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Rebutia vatteri cv. yellow flowers is a small and very free flowering cactus species that develops a larger crop of magenta-red flowers from the base of each head, resulting in a superb display in mid season. The spines are thin and bristly.
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F. histrix is native to Mexico where the plant grows on oak forests and submontane scrub; the plant can spread up to 2600 m of altitude.
