No Cacti people here? Do we have to change the name of this forum?

By the way, above are my friends San Pedro - Echinopsis pachanoi (syn. Trichocereus pachanoi), Stetsonia coryne and I believe Cleistocactus strausii.

Christopher

please don't change the name as I have a hard enough time as is.

Richard

If anyone can tell me what these are that would be awesome.

goldilocks

Richard, my friend, your last photo will be disregarded, not a cactus. It is Euphorbia anoplia, Tanzanian Zipper Plant. Impressive as it is, does not belong on this page. I will start a Euphorbia page.

Christopher

Here is one of mine thats just started to bud a little flower!

oops

Richard

My brother's...

Formally my cactus...

-Nancy

So you want others to post pictures of their cacti type plants only

Couple of mine earlier this year

Sold to me as Cylindropuntia tunicata 'alba'.

Kzzle, that looks more like another pad developing than a flower.

Christopher

wow and wow!

is Trichocereus huascha cristata soft or prickly? That's pretty awesome.

Also, what is the name of the white hairy thing in Richard's post (way above).

Daniel

prickly!

stupidlazydog, thanks so much for including the names with your pictures. I wish everyone would do that (at least as much as they know) in these threads.

But, I'd still rather see pictures with no names than no pictures.

Rooftopbklyn

white hairy one is

CEPHALOCEREUS SENILIS HAIRY OLD MAN CACTUS

Richard

A few more.

Christopher

Christopher, I love the round rain drops on the cactus spines, it almost seems supernatural... so cool! Great flowers too.

Finally got round to getting a current pic of my one and only spiked cactus. It's a Saguaro, or so I am informed, and was from seeds planted in 1993, it's in a 7 inch pot btw and is greenhouse bound x365. It's spikyness makes up for the fact that I don't grow any others, this one is vicious enough!

Gill UK

Thanks, Nancy. And that was the cactus I nearly threw out last year...

Gill, it is indeed a Saguaro, and a nice one at that. Hope to visit Arizona one day to see some of the really big boys.

Christopher

Hey there Christopher, just hope my guy doesn't put on a massive growth spurt and end up the size of one of those Arizona specimens, lol! They sure are big. It's spines are so hard they even make a noise, 'twaaaaang', if you snag one, and talk about hurt, it's pure evil.

Gill UK

NoID from flea market. Blooms quite often.

Rainbow Burst

Tephrocactus articulatus v. papyracanthus (Paper Spine Cactus)

Bernard, that is one of the most bizarre thing I think I've seen in the plant world! It's interesting though :)

Gill UK

Isn't it adorable Gill?! I found this little guy at my local farmer's market.

The interesting fact is that the spines are thin and papery, they help protect and propagate the offset plant by rolling like a tumbleweed, carried by the strong winds till it meets a greener or more moisten pasture to lay new roots on.

from the heated ground and they roll like a tumbleweed through strong winds in the wild until they halt into greener or more moisten pasture.

Gill, bad as the big spines are, I hate the glochids on the Opuntias even more.

Bernard, this is mine...very slow grower.

Christopher

Christopher

Very nice Chris!

I heard it's very hard to keep them stacked up like that. They prop off fairly easily when touched or accidentally knocked into. I guess the big guy in the back gives this plant some support and protection.

How old have you been growing this Tephro?

The spineless one - Geometricus is on the top of my wishlist, another very slow growing species.

Glochids, I had to google that one, so they're the small type that tend to stick in your skin and stay there as they have barbs? The big things on my saguaro are correctly termed 'spines'? All cacti are sucs, sucs are not cacti, cacti are defined by the fact they have areoles? Please correct me if I'm wrong. Learning all the time.

Gill UK

Yay! I love cacti! Don't know of the names except for the ones I give them (silly I know) I'm knew to this but here is a few of my first little guys!

They've actually grown a lot since I "rescued" them :-)

I believe no. 2 is a "Thimble Cactus", Mammillaria gracilis fragilis.

Nice Flowers!

Your first plant seems alittle etiolated.. it might need more light..

Chris, we need to talk..Feeling much better..I will e-mail soon. We can meet up this weekend if you would like..There is one plant I would love a piece of if you could spare. Please, remind me to tell you)

Thanks Bernard! Yeah I found that little guy at a drug store on clearance and couldn't resist I have it in the sunniest window which isn't very sunny right now.

Did anyone know what mine are? I'd especially like to know what the lighter coloured one is. I found it on its side behind a bunch of other plants at home depot and he still wont quite stand up straight.

Gill, all cacti are succulents, but all succulents are not cacti...Cacti have spines (not thorns, as some term them) which, like flowers and new branches or pads, only grow from areoles, which are unique to cacti. Yes, the glochids are the tiny spines that stick into your skin and are difficult to remove, found only on Opuntia and related cacti.

Bernard, don't remember how many years ago I got that as a segment or two, but it was quite a while back. Slow grower I have neglected.

Mike, I will email you.

Christopher

pretty cacti with flower.

Echinopsis (unsure of specific variety) in all its stages of growth. Produced so many pups that I sold about 200 of them, individually potted, to my florist for $3 a piece. She sold them for $7.

1) My little, painstakingly slow growing Papyracanthus. Shhh...I think he's asleep!

2) My lovely little Mammilaria. I never knew what variety.

3) Never learned who this big guy is but I'm seriously in like with him.

4) Little, inoffensive Opuntia Mycrodaisis (yellow glochids) & Peanut Cactus? living happily together.

5) Their scary big sisters!

6) Don't know the name of these two slow growing, dainty ladies. They have purple torsos.

OK potted only , eh? A suc will sneak in here and there, sorry. I am brain dead for names and to lazy to cover my @ss by consulting Ms. Google.

opuntia erenacea

Road Kill Cactus

New rooting Opuntia collected in New Mexico

My scale ridden Josephs coat Prickly Pear.

Potted only, my rules so as to be fair to those such as myself who live in Arctic climes, who would be shamed by the folks in places like Cali and all places tropical.

Christopher

My Melocactus azureus in an eight inch pot

ywong, nice, but maybe a ten inch pot is in order.

Christopher

Christopher, Dar, Becks, SLD, Phil (UK), Cheryl (Australia) ... How do you get your cacti to flower? Just full on sun?

My potted babies are pampered and spend their day on the porch with direct morning sun only, then shaded sun the rest of the day. They were raised on a NYC windowsill until 10 mos ago. Is it time for me to inch them out into the scorching sun of the equator?

I wonder if any of these will burn. I do know that the echinopsis was originally outside in a rock garden bed and they all died. The ones I do have are from one baby I took home to NY. Even some giant Cereus cacti died out in that sun...perhaps because of neglect. Still, I want mine to flower. Pls advise.

Cheryl, I think we have the same echinopsis.

The Echinopsis, with white flowers, blooms readily in the house. My Parodia, with yellow flowers, I had for years indoors, never flowered. But a summer outdoors gave me my first flowers ever. Some cacti require cooler temps to trigger flower production.

Christopher

My cactus are in full morning sun only....we have had a very hot summer here so I think that has helped them flower so wel.

I'm not sure about names. There were labels but when I checked online, there were different names. I've read here that some have been reclassified so I'm assuming that is what is happening.

Notocactus magnificus (Parodia?)

Mammillaria mariner (Camptotricha?)

Mediolobivia eos (Rebutia haagei eos?)

Mammillaria plumosa

A few more...

Mammillaria tenago del ville

Lobivia arachnacantha (Echinopsis ancistrophora?)

Rebutia fulviseta

What genus/species is that in the first photo in Phil from UK's post near the top? The round cactus with several purple flowers on top?