We all now about peyotl but... Cacti have been used for heart medication , statins Used for Itching powder, Spines used for needles, sewing needles, Even the original stylus for record players, and they were used (wool) from cacti to stuff seats in some American ( Ford?) Cars. They are also home to ...

Cereus Peruvianus/Hildemannius see Cereus on the cactiguide side bar on the left of screen

Aeonium Arborescens try the succulentguide.com or llifle for care. It eventually flowers and dies (monocarpic) but usually offsets basally (produces baby plants) before then or in not produces lots of seed from a very large penduncle of yellow floresences.......try less water and keep warm in winter.

One of my prized plants- Euphorbia Gorgonis the rare and beautiful Medusae's Head Spurge
I haven't any pics of it at the moment but will try to post soon.


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Hi Everyone, I haven't got any pics as yet (only a White Hatiora Easter cactus/Rhipsalidopsis),I have to get my Family to post me pics from their phones before I can try and show you all. I also have a passion for Rock Garden plants/Alpines and Perrenials such as Lupins (I recently grew a load from ...

I have had a look succulentguide.com for a good few months trying ID some plants as I collect succulents too (Faucaria, Pachyphytum, Euphorbia, Echeveria, Lithops Aloes etc) and yeah its got lots missing but still helpful, I didn't know there were so many genera of succulents!! I also use llifle.

Hi Spence, I also live in England and have a PCB GH and was recently looking into sheets of it online ( I really need/ want a bigger GH), you can get different thickness and double/triple walled sheets in many sizes you can even get shapes cut for apex end panel and all sorts of shapes for slopes in...

It is a Parodia not a Buiningia I agree with Dave W. The flowers would be smaller and purple (as purpurea suggests) and come from a Cephalium a few ribs wide on the sunniest side with many bristles and white balls of wool like cotton balls. I have Coleocephalocereus (Buinigia) Aurea but its not got ...

I think the first is a mammillaria I don't know the species though and the second looks like echinopsis chamacereus. Hope that helps.

Thanks Guys,
I am quite jealous that you live the Chihuahua Desert Hegar, thats really cool if I were you I'd be out there collecting seed from everything I saw as there is so many mammillarias and echinocereus and stuff out there, If you do send me some LOL

Apparently some seed of Mammillaria keep viability for years eg Deherdtiana, Bertholdii, as the seedpods stay inside the body of the cactus or the seedpods are held by a thin layer of membrane which over time breaks down letting the seeds scatter within the spines and the body of the plant sometimes...

I wish my marketplace was like the one in Bangkok there, CACTUS HEAVEN!!
I'd be lucky to find any of those Plants in the UK, Astrophyutm Caput-medusae , Aztekium Hintonii and all the others; Caudexs too, You are so lucky. I'm green with envy lol

Thanks for sharing these pics with us all Shane, what fantastic landscape, nice flowers, I love the pic with the lizard too. Way different to good old British landscape.

What an amazing example of a crested cactus, I have a unusual crested Cereus Peruvianus, a crested Austrocylindropuntia vestita and a crested Hilderwinteria (cleistocactus) winterii, but nothing as impressive as that Fero in habitat.. Steve-O that looks really painful hope you're OK, though if it wa...

Hi there, Its Cereus Peruvianus monstrose also known as Cereus Hildemannius monsrose as for care keep above 15c in winter, keep dry, no misting, in summer lots of heat,movement of air and water (without waterlogging) let dry thoroughly between watering again, plant in a well draining gritty compost....