Graptopetalum amethystinum...

I've waited 2 years for this plant to flower so that I could nail this ID! The leaves on my plant never take on any pink color like they are supposed to for this species but the flowers are unmistakeable.

Beautiful everyone, just beautiful...)

Kathi, were you on your phone? If you touch the word “Like”, with or without a number, it shows who liked the post before you. To add a like, you touch the “thumbs up” sign to the left. If you touch it a second time, your “like” disappears again. Handy for if you by mistake like your own picture ;-).

Echinocereus Subinermis,first time bloomer.

Today there is: Pelecyphora aselliformis

Cumarinia odorata - just one pale flower poking through the hooked spines.

Aztekium valdezii - with a Lophophora williamsii hitching a ride. Those little devils get everywhere.

Oh my!These are beautiful Spanishfly!I've been looking for a Pelecyphora myself

Ermione, I find the other species of Pelecyphora, P. strobiliformis, produces offspring most prolifically, and with the loveliest flowers. I can send you a couple of flowering adults and some youngsters if you would care to PM me.

Here´s an older pic - lots of those have been given as presents to Mrs Fly´s friends.

Fly, those mamas are prolific! I love that pot middle left with all the surprise babies in it.

I bought a braided desert rose last Feb/Mar. I really don't like the braided branches, so I unwound them and repotted. And the buds promptly fell off!

So I decided to let it bloom before I prune. Thankfully, it didn't take too long!

Wow! I thought it was probably a pink plant, but this is a nice surprise! When it is done blooming I can deal with those long floppy stems you can see in the background.

This cactus has been blooming for me this month, off and on, as the flowers do not stay open for that long, but it has a lot of buds this year:

Rhipsalis pilocarpa:

Rhipsalis capilliformis, elegant flowers on an elegant plant:

Echeveria ‘Doris Day’:

Epithelantha unguispina

Thelocactus buekii

Mystery cactus;) the flowers on the cactus are more orange in real life, and really vibrant.

I already posted this Euphorbia hybrid on this post, but the flowers are more opened and really cute;).

Echinopsis chamaecereus ‘Rose Quartz’

Lobivia leucomalla

Cleistocactus winteri cristata

Cleistocactus strausii

Euphorbia francoisii (recently acquired, so no credit besides the fact I did not killed it yet...)

Monadenium ritchieri

Echeveria minima

Kalanchoe rhombopilosa
Euphorbia aureoviridiflora (another recent acquisition, still alive, not sure those are flowers or leaves!!, but just in case it's dead next month...)

Neoporteria huascensis

Bonus shot, not mine but spotted at the last SF cactus show (that show was amazing...)

Red semperivuvm, stubby flower spike. Opened yesterday.

Kara,that epithelantha is so sweet and the thelocactus has such beautiful color!

Alain,lol!You have a wide range of plants,I think the new ones are safe with you.I love the Neoporteria.

Here is my coryphantha maiz tablasensis

Echinopsis subdenudata combo

So many beautiful blooms! I can see why so many of you collect cacti...Colors are so vivid, blooms so big and often so many on one plant.

I just got this baby about a month ago...

Aztekium valdezii

Wow, SLD, so many offsets that they elbow each other out of the way? Isn’t the flower great?

It is a pile of offsets, lol. The flower's beautiful, the color really makes it stand out.

I am assuming it is grafted. Do you know on what?

It's grafted on Ferocactus glaucescens. The graft is so short, and the offsets so plentiful, that you can hardly see it.

Interesting. I did not know that could be used as a rootstock, but I find more people using it. I wonder if the rootstock has an effect on how many pups are produced. Yours is incredible.

Thanks... wish I had something to do with the way it's grown :-)

I also wonder if it has an effect on the rate of growth.

Kara I love your "euphorbia hybrid" with the redish flowers! It has given me some hybridizing ideas! You don't see many mini red ones other than gottlebei. So I'm now waiting for mine to bloom. Here is E. Gottlebei, not mine, for sale. I didn't even ask the price because I knew I couldn't afford it.

Heres a few )

A few more

Beautiful blue, Rina!

Thanks Dinie :) It really is that blue.

Hello. Hello Rina and everyone else. Great pics and so beautiful. Thank you. Just a few more

This one below almost looks like he's putting his hand up in class while the other is down.lol Just needs two eye balls.

Aztekium ritteri

Got this in trade a couple years back. Bit disappointed. While it is a Ceropegia of some sort, it was supposed to be Ceropegia sandersonii which it clearly is not.

Flower is approx 2.5-3 inches long.

Close up of the little fringes at the top of the blossum. They move in even the lightest breeze.

The edges of the openings are lined with fine hairs. Not a great photo, unfortunately. If you click on the image to get a larger view, the hairs are a bit more visible ... if not by much.

Apus is opening

Some other starting to flower are E. something ruffles, E. topsy turvy, E. black prince and one more I've forgot the name of.

Copiapoa humilis tenuissima

Ermione ( err-me-Oh-knee?), Copiapoa flowers are simple, but I like them.

Cop. pseudocoquinbena

Avonia quinaria ssp. alstonii

Aloe molederana (somalia). Check out the fuzz

Carnegea gigantea. Night bloomer

Aloe distans again

Aloebot, those Avonia flowers are awesome!!! $6 for that plant sounds like a steal or must have been a while back...

Haha,yes that is how it sounds!Like in the Harry Potter movies.

I like the copiapoas mostly for the plant itself,the flowers are nice but not showy.

The avonia on the other hand, is a beautiful plant with beatiful flowers.I will get me one of those at some point.

Alain, I've had it at least 5 or more years. After I posted this I was surprised at the # of buds. In the picture I see 27.

Ermione, I saw mature collected (36 years ago when still not frowned upon) ash grey C. cinerea at a cactus nursery. I could only afford a large lemon sized plant at the time. I was instantly hooked on Copiapoa after that. I am still looking for a nice columna alba. Some day.

I'm having an unusually good year of flowers, now only if the wind would stop damaging/uprooting everything outside.

More 'blooms' on Euphorbia decaryi + it grew few more arms :)

OT - I don't have any crested succulents, but have fascinated Shasta daisy blooms...nothing unusual.
They still look good in front of taller Penstemon:

I have a few Pachyphytums all flowering at once...

P. compactum:

P. coeruleum:

P. oviferum

Graptosedum Bronze (aka Alpenglow):

Echeveria setosa:

Echeveria setosa var. deminuta:

Echeveria Perle von Nuernberg

Andrew,great photographs and beautiful flowers!

Nothing too showy, Ceropegia Woodii flowering

Euphorbia Millotii flowering and finally starting to branch.

Oh yea and Jathopha Cathartica blooming again..... I must be doing something halfway right lol.

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Very nice! I have small Ceropegia woodii, but am not sure if it is doing really well (Btw, there is July blooms thread -HERE- :)

This euphorbia milii was put in the ground in May? only receives 3-4 hours of sun and seems to be loving it.

Henry Fonda rose,, thanks for looking!

Doesn't matter much - but it is July !:) I posted link already to July thread (in a post just above yours).