I am not a professional nor an expert in Cactacea taxonomy. Any help with ID and spelling are always welcome. To up-date my list I've been using many books, journals, catalogs and other web-sites. It's been helpful, but I have more work to do. I only ship to the main 48 States. We offer 72+ hour heat packs for $3.00 each. Please read the front page for ordering information.
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Acanthocalycium glaucum - Sometimes found as Echinopsis glaucina.
It
is a flat globular to shortly elongated solitary cactus, clumping with age. Body
covered by a protective blue-grey layer of pruina. Yellow flowers in summer.
ArgentinaGrowing in 4
1/2 inch pots. - left to right - #1, #2, #3 @ $13.00 each
Arrojadoa dinae -
Come to me as Arrojadoa sp. Beateae (not a field # ?
ACG-78). Arrojadoa dinae is
a low succulent shrub with slender stems, up to 30 cm tall, the stems being
covered with yellowish brown spines and greyish-white wool, and even more dense
towards the apex where the pseudocephalium develops bicolored, brownish red to
violet-pink blooms. Plants are shrubby, basally branching with subterranean
tubers.Flowers
are tubular,
often bicolored, brownish red to violet-pink.
Arrojadoa dinae, Arrojadoa
multiflora, Arrojadoa
eriocaulis and Arrojadoa
beateae are
a group of distinct but related species in Minas Gerais and Bahia. They are
readily distinguished by their subterranean tubers, stems, wood anatomy,
bi-colored flowers, and fruits. Most authors regard them as conspecific under
the oldest name Arrojadoa
dinae.
However some studies in the field, show that it should be better to maintain
these taxa as separate species. In some cases they even grow together (A.
dinae, A.
eriocaulis)
without hybridization. Brazil. Growing in a 3 1/2 inch pot. - #1 @ $13.00
Discocactus ferricola -
Discocactus ferricola is
a small flattish globular cactus from Brazil and Bolivia that flowers on warm
summer nights. At first plants are solitary and produces a small creamy-brown
cephalium, a structure formed by trichomes (woolly hairs) from which emerge the
tubular, white, sweetly scented flowers. Older specimen may eventually produce
some offsets after making a cephalium. Discocactus
ferricola belongs
to the Discocactus
heptacanthus-
complex. It differs from Discocactus
heptacanthus proper
by the spiralling tuberculate ribs and the long spreading acicular spines.
Growing in 4 1/2 inch pots. front & back photos - left
to right - #1, #2, #3 @ $18.00 each
Discocactus heptacanthus -Discocactus
heptacanthus is
a solitary flattened cactus that form a cephalium at maturity and blooms on warm
summer nights. Its fragrant flowers are pollinated by moths. It is a very
variable species which received several different controversial names, many of
them are still used in the trade. Some authors still consider it a complex of
several related species and subspecies while Taylor and Zappi (1991) accepts
only three subspecies: subsp. heptacanthus,
subsp. catingicola,
and subsp. magnimammus.
Flowers are nocturnal,
fragrant, white or pale pink. Eastrern Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil.
Growing in 4 1/2 inch pots. - front & top photos -
left to right - #1, #2 - $15.00 each
Discocactus zehntneri ssp. araneispinus -
Discocactus
zehntneri subs.
albispinus,
more often known with its old name Discocactus
albispinus,
is a very singular cactus with a disk like, flattened to globose body, and one
of the most attractive and easy to grow species of Discocactus. It looks very
much like standard Discocactus
zehntneri.
They grow in the same area, but Discocactus
albispinus is
larger and has fewer spines than D.
zehntneri,
moreover the spines are longer, whiter and more recurved, also its shape is more
flattened. It is a squat solitary plant that often in culture produces offsets.
White, scented, slender, funnel-shaped , 2 to 9 cm long that open at night. The
position of the stigma is at the top of the stamens. Each flowering lasts only
one night, but that night it produces many nicely scented flowers. Southern
Brazil. Growing in 4 1/2 pots. - left to right - #1, #2 @ $18.00 each
Discocactus zehntneri ssp. araneispinus -
Discocactus
zehntneri subs.
albispinus,
more often known with its old name Discocactus
albispinus,
is a very singular cactus with a disk like, flattened to globose body, and one
of the most attractive and easy to grow species of Discocactus. It looks very
much like standard Discocactus
zehntneri.
They grow in the same area, but Discocactus
albispinus is
larger and has fewer spines than D.
zehntneri,
moreover the spines are longer, whiter and more recurved, also its shape is more
flattened. It is a squat solitary plant that often in culture produces offsets.
White, scented, slender, funnel-shaped , 2 to 9 cm long that open at night. The
position of the stigma is at the top of the stamens. Each flowering lasts only
one night, but that night it produces many nicely scented flowers. Southern
Brazil. Growing in a 10"x41/2' pot. - #1 xlg @ $85.00 This is a big plant will need to be
shipped in it own box.
Echinocereus fendleri -
Echinocereus
fendleri is
a wide ranging and variable species with an indefinite number of geographic
races. It is a low growing , scrubby cactus, that grows solitary or in small
clumps with 5 to 20 stems. The classic fendleri form has huge violet-purple
flowers and attractive white/black spination. All varieties have large red
delicious edible fruits. USA - New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Arizona, Utah and
northern Mexico - northern Sonora, Chihuahua. Growing in 14" x 5 1/2" pot. #1
xlg @ $60.00
Echinocereus stramineus crest -
Echinocereus stramineus is
a clumping cactus, forming large, compact colonies with 100 or more stems -
occasionally up to 500 heads - but, this is the crested form. These larger
clumps are rounded, often 60-90 cm across and nearly as high. Abundant large
bright pink to purple-red flowers in late spring. USA - southwest Texas, New
Mexico and Mexico. Growing in 4 1/2 pots. - left to right - #1, #2, #3 @ $35.00
each
Eriosyce islayensis ssp. islayensis -
Eriosyce islayensis is
a small globose
to cylindrical cactus with very woolly areoles end dark spreading spines,
it is indeed very variable and has received many names, but it is clear from
fieldworks that the different wild populations constitute a single but multiform
species. Flowers born on younger areoles from
a yellowish woolly crown in summer,
wide funnelform, yellow, outer perianth segments often reddish, floral tube
short with tufts of dense wool and long reddish bristles.
Northern Chile along the coast, to southern Peru - just south of Lima. Type
locality Province of Islay Peru. Growing in 3 1/2 inch pots. - left to right -
#1, #2, #3, #4 @ $13.00 each
Frailea pygmaea ssp. aurea crest -
Frailea pygmaea as
the name implies ("pygmaeus" meaning
dwarf), is a very small cactus that lives half buried in the ground. Most of the
plants in habitat are single headed unless they are damaged. The "aurea" form
is very nice, due to it golden-yellow spines and yellowish- or brown-tomentose
areoles. The flowers are yellow and opens only during the sunniest summer days.
Flowers are yellow, arising from the crown from a very woolly bud, often
cleistogamous, 2 to 2.5 cm, up to 3 cm diameter, pale yellow, with dense,
whitish to rose-colored pubescence outside. Uruguay near Montevideo. Growing in
a 4 1/2 pot. - front & back photos - #1 @ $20.00
Matucana haynei - Matucana
haynei is
a globe-shaped cactus densely covered by white-greyish, hair-like spines. The
purple, tubular flowers project beyond the spines and present a most attractive
appearance at flowering time. It is polymorphic in the wild and divided into
several subspecies and forms varying in spine size, colour and density, as well
as in growth habit and flowers colour. Flowers are scarlet to salmon to purplish
crimson. It is widespread on the western slope of the Andes in northern Peru. -
front & top photos - Growing in a 4 1/2 pot. #1 @ $13.00
Neoporteria lisocarpa - This plant came to me two or
three decades ago as a spiral form. As years went by the spiral form was used
up, no more spiral offsets. But, I like the plant so much I still grow it.
Chile, Argentina and Peru. Growing in 3 1/2 pot. - left to right - #1, #2, #3,
#4 @ $13.00 each
Neoporteria lisocarpa - This plant came to me two or
three decades ago as a spiral form. As years went by the spiral form was used
up, no more spiral offsets. But, I like the plant so much I still grow it.
Chile, Argentina and Peru. Growing in 4 1/2 pot. - front & back photos - #1 @
$15.00
Neoporteria nidus ssp. senilis -
Also so known as Eriosyce
senilis is
a solitary cactus with dens covering of bristly spines, it hybridize easily in
habitat and in cultivation too with other species of the genus Eriosyce.
The ssp.
senilis has
thin cream-white twisted spines but is quite variable in spination and the
plants with different spine colours are often found in cultivation labelled as Eriosyce
senilis var.
multicolor. Eriosyce
senilis is
quite variable and has received numerous unnecessary names of no botanical
value, representing no more than local phenotypes. Flowers various shades of
purple-pink. Growing in 3 1/2 pots. - left to right -
#1, #2, #3, #4 @ $13.00 each
Neoporteria nidus ssp. senilis -
Also so known as Eriosyce
senilis is
a solitary cactus with dens covering of bristly spines, it hybridize easily in
habitat and in cultivation too with other species of the genus Eriosyce.
The ssp.
senilis has
thin cream-white twisted spines but is quite variable in spination and the
plants with different spine colours are often found in cultivation labelled as Eriosyce
senilis var.
multicolor. Eriosyce
senilis is
quite variable and has received numerous unnecessary names of no botanical
value, representing no more than local phenotypes. Flowers various shades of
purple-pink. Growing in 4 1/2 pots. - left to right - #1, #2 @ $15.00
each
Neoporteria nidus ssp. senilis -
Also so known as Eriosyce
senilis is
a solitary cactus with dens covering of bristly spines, it hybridize easily in
habitat and in cultivation too with other species of the genus Eriosyce.
The ssp.
senilis has
thin cream-white twisted spines but is quite variable in spination and the
plants with different spine colours are often found in cultivation labelled as Eriosyce
senilis var.
multicolor. Eriosyce
senilis is
quite variable and has received numerous unnecessary names of no botanical
value, representing no more than local phenotypes. Flowers various shades of
purple-pink. From old collection plants. Growing in 4 1/2 inch pots. -
front, top & back photos - left to right - #1, #2 @ $20.00 each
Neoporteria nidus ssp. senilis -
Also so known as Eriosyce
senilis is
a solitary cactus with dens covering of bristly spines, it hybridize easily in
habitat and in cultivation too with other species of the genus Eriosyce.
The ssp.
senilis has
thin cream-white twisted spines but is quite variable in spination and the
plants with different spine colours are often found in cultivation labelled as Eriosyce
senilis var.
multicolor. Eriosyce
senilis is
quite variable and has received numerous unnecessary names of no botanical
value, representing no more than local phenotypes. Flowers various shades of
purple-pink. From an old collection. - front & back photos - Growing in a 6" x 4 1/2" @ $65.00
Neoporteria villosa -
Also known as
Eriosyce villosa is
a small solitary cactus typically with long hair-like radial spines and several
small magenta flowers at a time. It becomes shortly columnar in age. Flowers
bright magenta. Chile. Growing in 3 1/2 pots.
- left to right - #1, #2, #3, #4 @ $13.00 each
Notocactus buiningii -
Also know as
Parodia buiningii (Buxbaum)
N.P. Taylor is a solitary, flattened cactus only a few cm in height with long,
straw-yellow spines. It bears large and showy yellow flowers, and produces hairy
fruit and black seeds. Flowers shiny, pale yellow with a distinct red-violet
stigma. Growing in 3 1/2 inch pot. - left to
right - #1, #2, #3, #4 @ $13.00 each
Notocactus leninghausii -
Also known as
Parodia leninghausii,
still known in cultivation with its old name Eriocactus
leninghausii,
is a very popular cactus species appreciated because glistens under a haze of
harmless golden spines and will produce silky yellow flowers, with a lovely
reflection in the petals only when mature (5 years or so), but the blossom in
summer is worth the wait. Sometimes, they present monstruous amd cristate forms.
Endemic to Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Growing in 4 1/2 inch pots. - left to right - #1, #2,
#3 @ $15.00 each
Notocactus magnificus -
Also known as
Parodia magnifica,
still known in cultivation with its old name Eriocactus
magnificus,
is a bluish-green geometric globular cactus with wool that grows in clusters and
produce absolutely brilliant yellow flowers. These cacti develop a slight
depression on the crown, which may become distorted with age. Parodia
magnifica glistens
under a haze of pale yellow spines. Cristate (wavy edged) forms are avalible but
these are usually grafted plants. Flowers sulphur yellow. Brazil, and nearby
Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina. Growing in a 6 inch pot.
Growing in a
4 1/2 inch pot. - front & top photos - #1m @ $15.00
Notocactus magnificus - Also
known as
Parodia magnifica,
still known in cultivation with its old name Eriocactus
magnificus,
is a bluish-green geometric globular cactus with wool that grows in clusters and
produce absolutely brilliant yellow flowers. These cacti develop a slight
depression on the crown, which may become distorted with age. Parodia
magnifica glistens
under a haze of pale yellow spines. Cristate (wavy edged) forms are avalible but
these are usually grafted plants. Flowers sulphur yellow. Brazil, and nearby
Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina. Growing in a 6 inch pot.
- front & top photos - #1 @ $18.00
Obregonia denegrii -
Obregonia is among the most famous of all cacti for is unique artichoke-shaped
stem. It is the only representative of its monospecific genus and is related to
Ariocarpus. It grows almost always as a solitary plant levelled with the ground,
with the sunk and woolly apex. It is considered an intermediate form between
Ariocarpus and Lophophora.The flowers grow between the wool of the apex, in the
centre of the stem on young tubercles, they are funnel-shaped white diurnal, up
to 2.5 cm in diameter, 2.5-3 cm long. External perianth segments greyish,
pericarpel naked or with few scales. Filaments reddish purple or pink, anthers
yellow, style white and stigma lobes white.
Obregonia denegrii has
a very small geographic range near Ciudad Victoria in the Valley of Jaumave,
Tamaulipas, Mexico. Growing in 3 inch pots. -
front & top photos - left to right - #1, #2, #3, #4, #5 @ $25.00 each
Parodia schumanniana ssp. clavicepa crest - Parodia
schumanniana subs. claviceps (sometimes
listed under its old name Eriocactus
claviceps)
is a smaller growing form of Parodia
schumanniana that
does not exceed 50 cm in height. It has attractive large sulphur yellow flowers
in summer. Rio
Grande do Sul, Brazil, Misiones, Argentina.
Growing in 3 1/2 inch pots. - front & top phots - left to right - #1, #2 @ $18.00 each
Parodia sellowii -
Parodia
sellowii best
known as: Notocactus
sellowii (one
of the Wigginsia type
members of the genus) is a flattened globular cactus from Brazil, Uruguay and
Argentina, about 15 cm diameter producing several yellow flowers together around
the very woolly stem apex. It is a widespread, extremely variable species that
has received numerous unnecessary names (at least 120), representing no more
than local phenotypes. Growning in 3 1/2 pots.
- left to right - #1, #2, #3, #4 @ $13.00 each
Sclerocactus uncinatus - Large plant with four heads
from an old collection.
Sclerocactus uncinatus (more
often listed under its old name Glandulicactus
uncinatus)
is a solitary cylindrical cactus. Three subspecies are recognized, the nominate
form, subsp. crassihamatus. Broadly funnel-form-campanulate, diurnal, dull pink
to dark red, or russet or brownish purple to almost black, 2-4 cm long, up to 3
cm in diameter. Mexico, and USA (southern Texas).
Growing in a 14" x 6" pot. - #1 xlg @ $85.00
Stenocactus albatus -
Stenocactus albatus is
a well-known in horticulture cactus species with a pale green epidermis, denser
and thinner white/yellow spines and yellowish flowers. However its
classification is controversial and all available informations about this taxon
can only be described as contradictory, and most of the the plants labelled Stenocactus
albatus don’t
fits at all the original description of Dietrich, and some of which may
correspond to other species. Mexico. Growing
in 3 1/2 inch pots. - front & top photos - #1, #2 @ $13.00
Thelocactus hexaedrophorus - This is a larger plant from an old collection. It's a solitary and quite variable cactus with flattened stems. Many local forms are known, often formally described, that differ in stem, spine or flower morphology. Because of the large variability of the species in the whole distribution area, none of these are recognised today. Flowers are silvery-white or rarely pinkish with more or less magenta midribs. San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas, Tamaulipas, and Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Growing in a 8" x 6 1/2" brown & blue pot. - front & top photos - #1 lg @ $60.00
Thelocactus hexaedrophorus multi-headed - Nice plant with four heads.
It's
a solitary and quite variable cactus with flattened stems. Many local forms are
known, often formally described, that differ in stem, spine or flower
morphology. Because of the large variability of the species in the whole
distribution area, none of these are recognised today.
Flowers are silvery-white
or rarely pinkish with more or less magenta midribs. San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas,
Tamaulipas, and Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Growing in a 8" x 61/2" brown & blue pot. -
front & top photos - #2 @ $60.00
Thelocactus rinconensis #1 -
Thelocactus rinconensis is
one of the most decorative cacti of the deserts of Mexico and extremely variable
in its spines. Thelocactus
rinconensis has
received many unnecessary infraspecific epithets, and in cultivation it is
commonly found under its three varieties, the type and var.
nidulans with
long spines, var.
phymatothele with
very short spines, but the only acceptable distinction is Thelocactus
rinconensis subsp. hintonii,
which occurs in Nuevo Leon at some distance from the main population. Flowers
are salmon-pink to whitish. Coahuila and Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Large plant
from an old collection. Growing in a 12' x 6" pot. - front & back photos - #1
xlg @ $85.00
Thelocactus rinconensis #2 -
Thelocactus rinconensis is
one of the most decorative cacti of the deserts of Mexico and extremely variable
in its spines. Thelocactus
rinconensis has
received many unnecessary infraspecific epithets, and in cultivation it is
commonly found under its three varieties, the type and var.
nidulans with
long spines, var.
phymatothele with
very short spines, but the only acceptable distinction is Thelocactus
rinconensis subsp. hintonii,
which occurs in Nuevo Leon at some distance from the main population. Flowers
are salmon-pink to whitish. Coahuila and Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Large plant from an
old collection. Growing in a 10" x 5 1/2" pot. - front & back photos - #2 xlg @
$75.00
Uebelmannia pectinifera -
This is one of the most striking and recognisable Uebemannia with a green to
deep purple or reddish-brown, firm, almost lizard-skin textured 'skin' and
spines on vertical ribs.
Uebelmannia pectinifera is
a solitary cactus 10-50(-100) cm tall. It is a multiform species and very
variable in habitat, comprising a complex of numerous local forms, where each
form is linked to others by populations of plants with intermediate
characteristics. Three subspecies are recognized, the nominate form (subsp. pectinifera),
subsp. flavispina (Buining
& Brederoo) P.J.Braun & Esteves and subsp. horrida (P.J.
Braun) P.J. Braun & Esteves. The circumscription into subspecies possibly
represents convenient over-simplification of the situation in nature.
Diurnal, slender funnel-shaped greenish yellow. Uebelmannia pectinifera is
only known from one location, north east of Diamantina, mountain of Minas
Gerais, in Brazil. Plant is from an old collection. Growing in a 4 1/2" x 3 1/2"
pot. - front, top & back photos - #1 tf @ $50.00