Parodia

Plants with robust hooked spines variable in colour from yellow to brown, to black. White wooly areoles. Easy to grow and flower. Beautiful!!!

Flowers ranging in color from orange to dark purple red.

Parodias mix, various forms in assortment. Variable and beautiful specimens.

Dense hooked gold-brown spines.

Parodia subterranea (also found in cultivation as Notocactus occultus) is an amazing white-topped cactus species from Bolivia that reputedly grows almost completely hidden below the soil. The flower colour is usually red, but can be quite variable.

Dark green body, yellowish spines and a small yellowish flower, free flowering. Parodia comarapana is strictly endemic to a small area in Santa Cruz and Florida in the north of Comarapa, Bolivia.

Fat stem covered in white and yellow spines, very long central spine! Yellow flower and (if pollinated) a long fruit.

Green globose stem with sturdy, hooked central spines (3-7 cm long) in light brown. Shorter, paler radial spines provide striking contrast.