Cacti - Aporocactus flagelliformis
Added on 28 Jun, 2013 | 2 photos
Native to dry forests of Hidalgo in Mexico, where it is epiphytic on the branches of trees, or scrambling over r...
Cacti - Astrophytum coahuilense
Added on 30 Jul, 2013 | 2 photos
Native to Coahuila and Durante, in Mexico ... where they grow amongst other vegetationon, on south and east faci...
Cacti - Astrophytum myriostigma
Added on 12 Sep, 2013 | 1 photo
Native to San Louis Potosi, Mexico.
It has no spines.
Origin: San Luis Potosi, Mexique but many of the clo...
Cacti - Astrophytum ornatum mirbelii
Added on 30 Jul, 2013 | 1 photo
Native to Hidalgo, Queretaro and Guanajuato in Mexico.
Grows in wild canyons and on limestone cliffs, sometimes...
Cacti - Brasiliopuntia brasiliensis
Added on 25 Oct, 2013 | 1 photo
It is found in Brazil, Paraguay, eastern Bolivia, Peru and northern Argentina, and has become naturalized in Flo...
Cacti - Cephalocereus senilis
Added on 14 Oct, 2013 | 1 photo
'Old Man of Mexico'
It is native to Guanajuato and Hidalgo in eastern Mexico. It is threatened in the w...
Cacti - Cleistocactus strausii
Added on 7 Jun, 2013 | 3 photos
Borzicactus strausii
High mountains in Northern Argentina and Bolivia.
Flowers are like long tubes which don&...
Cacti - Copiapoa humilis
Added on 26 Jul, 2013 | 5 photos
A small cactus native to the Antofagasta area of Chile.
It grows at altitudes of 50 - 300 m in coastal deserts....
Cacti - Cylindropuntia spinosior
Added on 19 Oct, 2013 | 2 photos
It is native to Arizona and New Mexico in the United States, and Chihuahua and Sonora in Mexico.
It grows to be...
Cacti - Echinopsis oxygona
Added on 12 Sep, 2013 | 1 photo
Origin: Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay.
Hardy to -7 if kept dry.
The flowers are beautiful !
Ox...
Cacti - Ferocactus histrix
Added on 12 Sep, 2013 | 1 photo
Ferocactus comes from 'fero' meaning fierce.
Histrix means spiny.
Natural habitat = Mexico
Cacti - Ferocactus pilosus pringeli
Added on 12 Sep, 2013 | 1 photo
Ferocactus comes from 'fero' meaning fierce.
Pilosus = shaggy - referring to the white hairs on the ar...
Cacti - Ferocactus santa maria
Added on 17 Nov, 2013 | 1 photo
Natural habitat - Mexico - the southern part of the Baja California peninsula, around Santa Maria Bay and San Ca...
Cacti - Hildewintera aurispina
Added on 23 Oct, 2013 | 1 photo
Named after Hildegarda Winter (1893-1975) the sister of Friedrich Ritter prominent expert and discoverer of lot ...
Cacti - Mammillaria bocasana
Added on 26 Jun, 2013 | 2 photos
It is named after the Sierra de Bocas Mountain range in Mexico, where it grows.
It is very woolly and has hoo...
Cacti - Mammillaria grahamii
Added on 17 Jul, 2013 | 1 photo
Named after Colonel James Duncan Graham (1799-1851), Topographical engineer, and surveyor with the eastern porti...
Cacti - Mammillaria perez de la rosa
Added on 22 Oct, 2013 | 1 photo
The name honours Jorge Perez de la Rosa (born 1955) - a Mexican forestry engineer and secretary of the Botanical...
Cacti - Melocactus broadwayi
Added on 15 Feb, 2015 | 1 photo
Keep above 8 C
Partial sun.
Originates from coastal areas of the Caribbean region.
Cacti - Neochilenia crispa
Added on 9 Jul, 2013 | 2 photos
A cactus from the Atacama Desert in Chile.
It grows almost buried under the ground.
Cacti - Notocactus crassigibbus
Added on 22 Oct, 2013 | 2 photos
Notocactus means 'cactus of the south'
Crassigibbus means 'humped'
Natural habitat Brazil (r...
Cacti - Notocactus leninghausii
Added on 19 Oct, 2013 | 1 photo
Named after Guillermo Leninghaus, a Brazilian collector.
Natural habital : Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul)
Cacti - Opuntia aciculata
Added on 13 Sep, 2013 | 1 photo
"Opuntia" refers to the Greek town of Opus.
"Aciculata" derives from the Latin word “acic...
Cacti - Parodia maassii
Added on 22 Oct, 2013 | 0 photos
Southern Bolivia, Northern Argentina.
Its name honours Wilhelm Maass, secretary of the German Cactus Society.
