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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.

Note: All plants on this page will be shipped bare root. Everything here can be purchased in their pots at the J & J greenhouse.

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

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 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. 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

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

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