2011 Plant List

2011-2012 Please see our “Terms” page for payment and postage options Species Description Pot Size Price ARIOCARPUS "Living Rock" plants - slow growing & much sought after cm GBP Narrow dark green tubercles. Flowering size plants now agavoides (Neogomesia) more than 10 years old 6.5 £6 Thick dark green tubercles, develops woolly centre with fissuratus age. 10 years old 6.5 £7.50 Nice forms of A. retusus, some from Mesa garden seed - retusus 10 year old plants 6.5 £5 Olive green tubercles, sharply pointed at the tips, large trigonus yellow flowers, 9 years old 6.5 £5 Similar to the type but with red/pink flowers – thought to trigonus fa. Aramberri be a retusus form by some 6.5 £5 ASTROPHYTUM Interesting plants, most are covered with white "spots" Pot Size Price Almost bare body, much thicker, stronger spines. Very capricorne v. crassispinum nice form 6.5 £3 Flowering size, “Bishops Cap” Some larger plants myriostigma available from £7.50 6.5 £2 myriostigma v. Dense white coating. Flowering size plants, flowers coahuillense yellow with a red centre 6.5 £3 Square plants for square pots! Nice 4 ribbed plants, myrio. v. quadricostata flowering size 8.5 £4 Glossy green 4 ribbed plants, no white spots – unusual quadricostata v. nudans form 8.5 £4 Nice white spotted form with strong brown/yellow spines. ornatum Various sizes available 6.5 =>10.5 £2 => £6.50 White spotted body covered with twisted yellow/straw Senile v aureum coloured spines 12 £7.50 We are pleased to offer plants grown from seed obtained COPIAPOA on our 2006 trip to Chile Pot Size Price From Botija, about 500m from the ocean. Grey stems atacamensis cluster with age - FEW 6.5 £4 Non-habitat seed. Red bodied plants when young, barquitensis straight black spines 8.5 £4 Most sought after form. Develops grey body with short cinerea BH57.01 or BH58.01 black spines – From 2 locations 6.5 £4 Develops into white columns with solitary spine from columnar alba BH62.01 each areole 6.5 £4 Grey body with long spines, clustering. Makes nice plant dealbata BH68.01 - FEW 6.5 £4 Olive green/red bodied plants, short spines, compact fiedleriana BH69.01 clustering growth - FEW 6.5 £4 Green body becoming grey with age. Short spines & grandiflora BH62.02 larger flowers 6.5 £4 Non-habitat seed. Gold body when young, becomes haseltoniana chalky with age. Yellow spines 8.5 £4 Olive green bodies when young, becoming chalky with haseltoniana BH52.01 age. “gigantea” form 6.5 £4 Black bodies, lower spines short, upper ones long black humilis v longispina and straight. Clustering plants 11.5 £8.50 Cultivated form, green/brown body often with interesting hypogea with wrinkled skin, yellow flowers 12 £6.50 A giant up to 1mtr tall, Cinerea like & clustering. From the tenebrosa BH55.01 mountains above Taltal 6.5 £4 CORYPHANTHA Mammillaria family. Compact plants from Mexico & USA Pot Size Price andreae Dark glossy green body, large yellow flowers 6.5 £2 Globular plants untidy pink coloured spines, Cochise Co. bisbeeana (Escobaria) Arizona 6.5 £3 cornifera Clustering plant from the Big Bend area of Texas 6.5 £3 Pretty clustering miniature, red & straw coloured spines, nelliae (Escobaria) pink flowers 6.5 £2 Dwarf plants making clusters of many heads, dense white sneedii (Escobaria) spines 6.5 £2 Brazilian plants – unless grafted need ericaceous DISCOCACTUS compost and high winter temps. Pot Size Price Small headed form, clustering with short straw coloured Ready boomianus (grafted) spines 6.5 August A giant of the group, making bodies up to 30cm diameter Ready ferricola (grafted) – large white flowers 6.5 August Generally large growing species, a few smaller choice ECHINOCACTUS ones Pot Size Price Popular “Golden Barrel” - or more unkindly “Mother in grusonii Law‟s seat”! 10.5 £5 “brevispina” form, attractive short spines on the typical grusonii v. inermis globular body 10.5 £9.50 The “giant” echinocactus, grows to over 1mtr in height in ingens habitat 6.5 £2 Usually clustering, from miniatures to large clumps over ECHINOCEREUS 1m Pot Size Price Pretty black & white pectinate spined plants with large adustus flowers. Flowering sized 8.5 £4 Short, tap rooted plants with large pink flowers. From wet amoenus JLH950741 grassy meadows! 6.5 £3 Multi-stemmed plants with white & black dagger like brandegei spines. Needs to be large to flower 6.5 £3 de-laeti Long, white hair like spines, Slow to flower 8.5 Sold Out engelmannii JLH950812 A northern form with black & white spines, cold tolerant 6.5 £2 Form of E. engelmanii from central Arizona, golden fasciculatus spines 10.5 £5 Form with brown/white spines. Not a lot different to fendleri var. eremeticus normal form! 8.5 £4 Short columnar plants with dense white/grey spines, easy fitchii flowering large pink flowers 8.5 £4 Similar to above, but much darker spines, easy flowering fitchii v. albertii large pink flowers 8.5 £4 “Cucumber” - like stems, tiny spines, flowering size gentryi Lau 087 plants 10.5 £5 Fat bodies, stiffer spines. Larger, deep pink flowers from knippelianus v. reyesii the centre of the plant 8.5 £4 Strongly spined plant from Baja California. We find it lindsayi slightly tender 6.5 £3 A spineless E. scheerii type. Flowers low down on the morricallii sides of the pale green stems 8.5 £4 Stunning red spines on our larger flowering sized plants. pectinatus v. rubra Easy flowering form 6.5 £2 : £3 White flowered, short bristly spines, more care with pulchellus v. sharpii watering required 6.5 £3 Small growing plants with dense spines, easily produced reichenbachii large pink flowers 6.5 £4 Easy flowering plants from a population with many flower rosei (Oro Grande form) colours 8.5 £4 From south of Samalayuca Mexico. Glassy white spines, stramineus JLH950764 robust stems 10.5 £5 Northern form, cluster forming plants. Quite hardy, triglochidiatus JLH950825 spines typical of triglochidiatus 10.5 £5 Totally spineless form! Much kinder on the fingers when triglochidiatus inermis re-potting! 8.5 £5 Short pectinate spines on a tap rooted body. Pink flowers weinbergii from the sides of the plant 8.5 £4 Small, globular plants with thin ribs and bi-coloured ECHINOFOSSULOCACTUS flowers Pot Size Price Long, thin papery spines with pink/white flowers – lloydii flowering April/May 6.5 £2 Many thin ribs, thin spines, just flowering size – phyllacanthus JLH950745 flesh/white coloured flowers 6.5 £2 ECHINOPSIS See Lobivia EPITHELANTHA Mostly miniatures with pink flowers & red fruits Pot Size Price From near Mud Mountain, New Mexico. Coarse white micromeris spines, pink flowers 6.5 £3 Small to large growing "Barrel Cacti" from Mexico & SW FEROCACTUS USA Pot Size Price Nice blue-bodied plants with vibrant red spines – grows emoryi large 6.5 £2 Bold red spines, dark green, plant body. Can grow to gracilis around football size 10.5 £5 Large growing plant, strong re-curved brown spines, herrerae yellow flowers 8.5 £4 Flat growing, broad yellow spines. Flowers pink/white, latispinus Some ex 16cm pots @ £10 8.5 £4 Flat growing plant with acute ribs. Flowering size plants macrodiscus ex 18cm pots @ £25 8.5 : 12.5 £4 : £6.50 From Tecomachalco Mexico. Makes small heads and robustus clusters profusely 8.5 £4 Southern California & Baja. Produces green flowers while viridescens still small 6.5 £2 Relatively recent discovery from Mexico. Monotypic GEOHINTONIA genus Pot Size Price Blue/grey body, many acute ribs, tiny white spines, mexicana purple flowers. On own roots 6.5 £7.50 GYMNOCACTUS Closely allied to Turbinicarpus but generally more spiny Pot Size Price Small plants, dense black & white spines, large beguinii purple/pink flowers 6.5 £4 Originally described as a Turbinicarpus, spination etc. booleanus (grafted) looks more like a Gymnocactus 6.5 Sold Out Globular, golden spines, growing to 10cm. Pink/white ysabellae flowers. Flowering sized plants 6.5 £4 GYMNOCALYCIUM South American group, mostly small flattened plants Pot Size Price Small flattened plants with blue/grey skin and yellow delaetii spines. Slow growing 6.5 £3 Strongly tuberculate , brown bodied plants with dark hamatum brown curved spines 8.5 £4 Purple/red bodies, white spines, pink flowers. A popular mihanovichii sort 6.5 £2 piltzorum P28 Flattened brown body with erect stiff spines 6.5 £2 Dwarf brown bodies, tiny spines, flesh-coloured flowers, ragonesii slow! 6.5 £3 Large rounded tubercles, long curved spines. Grows to saglione football size! 8.5 £4 HAMATOCACTUS Probably should be included with the Ferocactus group Pot Size Price Long red & white spines on a globular plant. From the Big hamatacanthus Bend area of Texas 8.5 £4 Small globular plants with pale yellow spines, yellow setispinus flowers. From Texas hill country 8.5 £4 Confuses many beginners with its un-cactus – like LEUCHTENBERGIA appearance Pot Size Price Pink/blue “fingers” with long papery spines. Huge yellow principis flowers 8.5 : 12.5 £4 : £9.50 (inc. Chamaecereus) Mostly small growing cacti. Free LOBIVIA flowering & easy cultivation. Pot Size Price Small headed plant clustering with short, red/brown andalgala spines. Flowers at 2cm diameter 6.5 £3 bruchii Plants forming large "barrels" with bright yellow spines 8.5 £4 dobeana Clustering Echinopsis type, brick red flowers 6.5 £3 Typical Echinopsis in appearance – grown from habitat oxygona (Echinopsis) seed from Argentina 8.5 £4 Small dark green bodied clustering plants, flowering “Strawberries & Cream” easily – red/cream flowers 6.5 £3 Fat green bodies with large woolly areoles, flowers at subdenudata (Echinopsis) small size 6.5 : 10.5 £2 : £5 Possibly a Lobivia hybrid.

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