Eriosyce

This is a very beautiful and peculiar plant. The green body contrasts with the black spines. The creamy white flowers with pink hues are very pretty.

This is an almost spineless plant. If you like deep purple-bodied plants, you simply must get it (if you haven't already).

Fascinating species with flat grey-violet body. The spines are usually very reduced but it is quite variable.

Neochilenia/Chileorebutia mix, various forms in assortment. Variable and beautiful specimens.

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.

Geophytic cactus with solitary stems rising barely above ground level, dull dark green, in the sun often tinged with purple. Spines variable, tannish-brown, dull grey or black, straight to curved. Flowers creamy-white to pink.

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.

Eriosyce islayensis is a small cactus with very woolly areoles and spreading spines, but quite variable. The flowers are funnelform, yellow , born from a yellowish woolly crown in summer. Ther fruits are club shaped pinkish to red.

Dark grey green body, stout black and red spines.

Yellow to honey-yellow spines.

This Eriosyce clone stands out for the prolific growth of shoots at its base. Peculiar and uncommon.

The Krainziana variety is distinguished from other populations of Eriosyce islayensis by its somewhat columnar, more robust stems, which can reach 75 cm in height, and this size is rare in the Islaya genus. Areoles very woolly with dark spreading spines.

Eriosyce taltalensis is spiny geophytic cactus with stems rising barely above ground level. The stem is globose or semi-globular dull dark green, in the sun often tinged with purple. The roots are fibrous, arising from a short, conical taproot.

Eriosyce gerocephala, best known as Neoporteria gerocephala is distinguished by thin, soft and flexible cream-white spines.

Eriosyce chilensis v. albiflora 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 from young areoles, they are flattish, usually creamy white.

Eriosyce gerocephala, best known as Neoporteria gerocephala is distinguished by thin, soft and flexible cream-white spines. Very nice!

Mixed Horridocactus species grown from seed. Very nice selection.

It grows in habitat together with Copiapoa cinerea.

Grey-brown body, greyish-black spines.

Collected by F.Ritter (FR712) in1958 as Pyrrhocactus saxifragus. Locality Guanillos, Tarapacá, Department of Iquique, Chile

This plant is extremely xerophytic, adapted to very dry soils and highly susceptible to overwatering, especially in poorly ventilated spaces.

Spines curved upward, greyish brown, flowers yellowish. Syn: Pyrrhocactus setosiflorus v. intermedius

Beautiful reddish tinted body, tubercled ribs and short yellow spines, pastel flowers in red-orange-pink tones.

Pretty pink flowers, whitish base. Fresh green body, brown spines.

Very nice!

Green, pinkish grey to a deep purple body.

The paucispina variety of Eriosyce islayensis (also known as Islaya paucispina) is characterized by fewer spines, which are notably more robust than those of other islayensis varieties.