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Cactus Plants
All plants that are in the Cactaceae are listed here.
Please note that most cactus species do not have a common English name, and many share the same English name. For best results follow the botanical names if you know them.
Cactus Plants By Type
Cactus Plants By Botanical Name
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Type of Plant: Climbing/sprawling tropical cactus. Excellent grafting stock and edible fruit. |
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Type of Plant: A true living rock, this small cactus from Mexico is a very collectible species among cactus growers. It is also one of the slowest! |
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Type of Plant: Another living rock from Mexico, A. retusus is probably the most widely cultivated Ariocarpus species and has many varieties available for today's cactus addiction. |
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Astrophytum asterias - Star Cactus Type of Plant: Star cactus has become very rare in the wild due to over collecting and habitat destruction. A small solitary globular cactus from southern USA and Mexico, this is one of the most collectible species of cactus going with countless varieties being introduced all the time. |
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Type of Plant: A. capricorne, though not as popular as A. asterias, is also very much collected worldwide. It has long curved spines and well defined ribs. |
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Type of Plant: Astrophytum caput-medusae is a recently discovered species, named so due to its incredibly long tubercles. Unlike all other members of the Astrophytum genus, this plant has long branch-like tubercles with the areole at the tip where it flowers. |
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Astrophytum myriostigma - Bishop's Cap Type of Plant: A. myriostigma is also a very hugely cultivated plant and grown in many different varieties. This species is probably one of the bigger species, some columnar specimens reaching over 1m in height. |
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Type of Plant: A. ornatum is probably the `spikiest` of all Astrophytum, unlike A. capricorne that has bendy long spines, A. ornatum has shorter, sturdier and more "pokey" spines. |
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Type of Plant: Blossfeldia liliputana are small cacti, considered the smallest of all cacti. They are round and spineless cacti form South America. |
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Type of Plant: Cereus hexagonus plants are exceptional landscape cactus growing very tall, and in time very wide. |
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Type of Plant: Cereus jamacaru is a very water tolerant species surviving even the typhoon rains of Taiwan! Large white night blossoms make this a great attraction in the dark as well. |
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Type of Plant: Cereus peruvianus are grown both as landscape plants and also as smaller ornamentals as this species has many cultivars and varieties. |
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Type of Plant: Like other tall, hardy Cereus, this one is no exception for landscaping and large columnar cacti. |
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Type of Plant: Cintia knizei is a lovely small globular cactus from South America. Named after the discoverer, this plant has found a warm welcome in the cactus collections of many. Smooth, bumpy and spineless, perfect. |
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Type of Plant: This small Copiapoa has lovely brown skin when grown in good light, turning more green in lower light situations. Yellow flowers and small black spines really make good contrast. |
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Type of Plant: Coryphantha elephantidens is a globular cactus with a thick taproot. Easily grown it can even be fairly water tough. Green skin, raised tubercles and thick short white spies with medium sized blooms. |
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Echinocactus grusonii - Golden Barrel Cactus Type of Plant: The golden barrel cactus can grow to very large dimensions, staying a roughly spherical shape. The large round habit of this plant, along with its numerous thick yellow/golden spines has made this a staple in the arid landscaping business. |
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Type of Plant: This cactus grows like a columnar plant, but not very high. The variety we grow is pretty much spineless and relatively soft. |
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Type of Plant: Echinopsis cuzcoensis is closely related to E. macrogona and E. peruviana, this tall South American columnar cactus has good sized white spines and larege white night blooming flowers. |
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Type of Plant: Echinopsis eyriesii is a common plant known for its flowers. There are many varieties, one of the most spectacular being the variegated crested variety, truly amazing! |
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Type of Plant: AKA Trichocereus bridgesii is another South American columnar cactus, often used for its entheogenic capabilities. There are also some very unusual varieties of Trichocereus bridgesii such as the penis plant. |
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Type of Plant: Like other Trichcoereus form the region, E. macrogona grows quite tall, though this species tend to be a little more robust than others. |
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Echinopsis pachanoi - San Pedro Type of Plant: San pedro has long been used in South America for its entheogenic use. It is also a staple grafting stock in cooler climates where warmer grafting stock species do not do so well. In places of lesser rain they are used quite a lot as landscaping plants, some are almost spineless some are not. |
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Echinopsis peruviana - Peruvian Torch Type of Plant: Used entheogenically in the same manner as San Pedro, this cactus is also used aesthetically the say way. Though Peruvian torch tends to be a thicker and more heavily spined cactus. |
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Type of Plant: This tropical cactus is from South America and grows very well indoors or out in sub-tropical or warmer areas. They have huge white flowers at night, and this species is a free standing sp. not needing support and not trailing/hanging. |
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Type of Plant: Epithelantha bokei is a pretty small Mexican cactus that appears almost all white as its skin is hidden by its fine sandpaper like spines. Slow growing, but incredibly beautiful cactus! |
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Type of Plant: Frailea castanea is a small, almost spineless cactus from South America. Its neat and straight ribs with intense brown skin make this a really neat looking cactus! |
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Type of Plant: Frailea pseudopulcherrima is a small globular/flat cactus rarely exceeding 67cm in diameter. Soft whitish spines and many babies with the ability to self pollinate and spread seeds all over the place make this a fun and easy to grow cactus. |
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Type of Plant: A very attractive stout cactus, this has short well defined spines and amazing naked flowers. |
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Type of Plant: Gymnocalycium denudatum is another stout cactus but this ones spines are wavy, almost resembling an octopus. We currently offer crested version of this plant. |
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Type of Plant: Gymnocalycium mihanovichii is often referred to as "Moon Cactus". This cactus comes in many forms, most commonly seen are the variegated versions. This plant, along with Myrtillocactus geometrizans, is the most stable cactus Chimera available today. |
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Type of Plant: This tropical cactus may very well be a hybrid. The genus is mostly tropical vine cactus, though this species tends to eb more upright and columnar like. Harrisia jusbertii is quite often used as a grafting stock in cooler areas. |
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Hylocereus undatus - Dragon Fruit Type of Plant: Dragon fruit is from Mexico and has been grown in Asia for a long time now as a commercial fruit. Now becoming more popular in other areas, this fruit has started seeing lots of commercial breeding. Hylocereus undatus is a tropical vine cactus also used for a cactus grafting stock. |
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Type of Plant: This cactus grows to be quite large, though slow. The very long tubercles make it look a little more like an Agave than a cactus. |
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Type of Plant: The monstrose variety of Lophocereus schottii is appropriately named "Totem Pole Cactus" for its bazaar aesthetic look. This is a columnar cactus growing to a few meters tall in time. |
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Lophophora diffusa - Peyote Type of Plant: This globular spineless cactus is probably the largest of the genus, and still rarely attaining more than 20cm in size. This is closely related to the peyote of ceremony, Lophophora williamsii. |
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Lophophora fricii - Peyote Type of Plant: Lophophora fricii, in our opinion, has some of the most aesthetic properties. Rib form is often more wavy and compact, flowers are often a lovely shade of pink, and they often form mats of plants, after a long time. |
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Lophophora koehresii - Peyote Type of Plant: Lophophora koehresii is probably the smallest of all Lophophora. It is also the most frequent to flower, this plant will flower all teh time given warmth, light and nutrition! In fact we have had a single headed stem have up to 9 flowers open at the same time! |
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Lophophora koehresii x L. fricii - Hybrid Type of Plant: Lophophora koehresii x L. fricii is a hybrid we created resulting in fairly L. fricii looking plants. Plants are fast growing and quite attractive. |
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Type of Plant: This is without question the most confusing Lophophora around. It is easy to identify, and very consistent in morphology, the thing is no one knows where it came from. No wild populations have been found, leading to many theories of it being a hybrid. |
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Lophophora williamsii - Peyote Type of Plant: Lophophora williamsii is the one true peyote in the westerners mind, meaning it is the one used in ceremonies for its mescaline content. This plant is a very attractive spineless cactus, not always solitary but sometimes. It has a very large taproot and is quite slow growing. |
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Type of Plant: This Mammillaria has a very unusual cultivar named Fred. How simple. This cv is naked of spines and is very smoother and strange looking, the crested version only adds to this. |
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Type of Plant: We mostly grow the cristate form of Mammillaria compressa which forms a long wavy snake like crest. It is a very compact cactus normally with great spination and skin color. |
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Type of Plant: We also mostly just grow the crested version of Mammillaria lloydii, This species has amore pronounced tubercle with small, yet rigid spines. Mammillaria lloydii has many light pink flowers. |
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Type of Plant: Mammillaria prolifera is named so as it is quite caespitose in habit, creating many many little baby plants. They can form a lovely carpet, or mound of plants. They are almost fuzzy looking but the spines do have some sting to them. |
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Type of Plant: Matucana madisoniorum is a small slightly columnar plant when old with black wiry spines. Such a small delicate looking plant surprises the grower with massive bright red flowers. |
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Myrtillocactus geometrizans - Blue Myrtle Type of Plant: Myrtillocactus geometrizans is a lovely cactus of many uses. It has many varieties, most interesting perhaps being the breast cactus. The fruit are very yummy and sold at markets in Mexico and the cactus itself is a mainstay in cactus grafting stocks. |
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Type of Plant: Neobuxbaumia polylopha is a large, somewhat slow growing columnar cactus. Its fine, many spines ribs reach up and make it a truly spectacular species. It is also very water tolerant, one of the few cactus that can grow without issue in Taiwan's rainy season. |
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Type of Plant: Obregonia denegrii AKA Artichoke cactus, has short wide tubercles and grows in a globular manner. Not usually reaching more than 20cm in diameter this is a very slow growing Mexican cactus that is quite collectible amongst cactus enthusiasts. |
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Type of Plant: Opuntia cochenillifera is used commercially to grow a type of insect used for dye. It is also edible for humans, though most people grow this to feed their turtles. The plant grows into a tree fairly fast and is spineless and usually without glochids. |
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Type of Plant: Opuntia dillenii is used in Taiwan for wine, drinks and ice cream. It is also used a lot around coastlines that are likely conflict zones with China, as this cactus when fully grown is quite impenetrable on foot. |
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Opuntia ficus-indica - Prickly Pear Type of Plant: Prickly Pear is often what you can find in the supermarket if you are near a place that grows it. The pads, or stems, are edible as a vegetable, but the glochids should be removed. The fruit is also used as both a table fruit and a colorant for juices. |
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Type of Plant: Opuntia fragilis is a small low growing cactus, often found in very dry grassy areas growing under bushes and by grass clumps. This is one of the few cactus that is actually from Canada and is in fact where our plants originated. |
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Type of Plant: Ortegocactus macdougallii is one of the most amazing lime green cactus around. The color of the skin and the contrast of the pitch black spines really makes this small clumping cactus stick out. |
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Pachycereus marginatus - Mexican Fencepost Cactus Type of Plant: Used in some places for a living fence, Pachycereus marginatus has very straight neat looking ribs and spines. Ironically the spines are actually quite small and not so great at keeping out intruders I wouldnˇ¦t think. |
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Type of Plant: Pelecyphora aselliformis is a slow growing endangered cactus from Mexico. The spines are somewhat elongated and the spines tiny. We currently also grow a crested form of this very rare plant. |
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Type of Plant: Pereskiopsis is a commonly grown plant amongst true cactus growers as it is used to graft seedling cactus onto. No cactus grafting root stock is faster than this species for small grafts, though it is short lived and poor for larger scions. |
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Schlumbergera sp. - Christmas Cactus Type of Plant: Christmas may very well be the most commonly grown cactus species, ironically pure species (not hybridized) are fairly rare. This cactus is easily grown indoors though more light is best. |
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Type of Plant: Stenocactus crispatus has many fine thin ribs with long paper-thin spines. The flowers are an incredible pink/white mix that is quite unique. |
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Type of Plant: Stenocereus griseus is also a giant cactus plant. Very dense strong spines on a very tall fat cactus make this an impressive sight to see. There is also a variegated variety of Stenocereus griseus. |
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Type of Plant: Stenocereus pruinosus is a very large cactus, one of the giants. Suited to dry and wet conditions, makes this plant an ideal landscape specimen. Reaching up to 4m tall and 50cm diameter, this is a real monster of a cactus. |
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Type of Plant: Strombocactus disciformis is a small globular cactus from Mexico. Very rare in the wild, it is commonly collected amongst breeders and collectors of cactus. We also grow a very rare crested form of Strombocactus disciformis. |
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Type of Plant: Thelocactus setispinus is a smaller cactus with medium length hooked spines. The flowers are of medium size, yellow with a red throat. We are now also growing a variegated variety of Thelocactus setispinus. |
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Type of Plant: Turbinicarpus alonsoi is a small tuberculate cactus with black spines. Somewhat resembling Ariocarpus this cactus grows in a similar fashion and is endangered in the wild. |
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Turbinicarpus psuedopectinatus Type of Plant: Turbinicarpus psuedopectinatus is a lovely cactus with dense white spination. The plants are endangered in the wild We are also currently growing a lovely crested form of Turbinicarpus psuedopectinatus. |
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Last Updated: January 5, 2012
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