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Star Cactus-this is easy to grow. This is a green spineless cactus and has white flakes on the outside of the ribs. Golden Barrel Cactus-sits upright and has a green body that is covered with gold-yellow spines. The flowers are also gold. This cactus would be good for beginners.
Pachycereus weberi is a columnar cactus that grows strongly tree-like and can reach heights of up to 11 meters. The moderately upright growth habit is candelabra-shaped. However, this typical growth form is only achieved by the plant when it reaches a height of two meters, where numerous branches of the main trunk ar
The specific epithet erecta comes from Latin, means 'upright' and refers to the upright shoots of the plant. Charles Lemaire placed the species in the genus Coryphantha in 1868. [5] Further nomenclature synonyms are Cactus erectus (Lem. ex Pfeiff.) Kuntze (1891) and Glandulifera erecta (Lem. ex Pfeiff.) Frič (1924).
Echinocereus viereckii grows upright or prostrate, branching at the base. Its dull, shiny light green shoots often reach up to 20 cm (7.9 in) in length and 4 to 4.5 cm (1.6 to 1.8 in) in diameter. The apex is loosely covered with white-yellowish areole felt, topped by an upright hyaline-yellow spine.
Stenocereus griseus is a tree-shaped cactus that grows to 6-9 meters tall with a clear trunk and upright green stems, about 9-12 centimeters in diameter, with six to ten ribs below the areoles. [2] It bears one to three central spines up to 1.5 centimeters long, the longest of which reaches 4 centimeters, and six to eleven marginal spines ...
Harrisia divaricata grows as a shrub up to 1 meter tall with upright, richly branched, slender shoots. There are nine blunt ribs. The four brown central spines are 2 to 2.5 centimeters long. The eight to ten marginal spines are white.
Echinocereus nicholii forms large, loose groups of up to 30 upright, cylindrical shoots from the base. These shoots are 30 to 60 cm (12 to 24 in) long and 5 to 7 cm (2.0 to 2.8 in) in diameter, with 10 to 13 non-tuberculated ribs. The plant features strikingly long central spines that are glassy white or golden yellow.
Other common names for this plant include black-spined pricklypear, long-spine prickly pear, purple pricklypear, and redeye prickly pear. [2] Opuntia macrocentra is an upright spreading shrub consisting of several joined segments called pads. This cactus produces large colorful yellow and red flowers and dark red edible fruits.