Opuntia basilaris (Beavertail Cactus) is a shrubby cactus with sprawling to ascending or erect stems composed of flattened, nearly smooth…
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The family Cactaceae (cactus, cacti) is divided into four subfamilies (Pereskioideae, Opuntioideae, Cactoideae and Maihuenioideae), around 125 – 130 genera and 1,400 – 1,500 species of flowering plants with succulent (water-storing) stems.
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Mammillaria karwinskiana (Royal Cross) is a small cactus with green, spherical to short cylindrical stems with pyramidal, spirally…
Mammillaria heyderi (Heyder's Pincushion Cactus) is a small cactus with a solitary depressed globose stem with conical or pyramidal…
Mammillaria scheinvariana, also known as Mammillaria crinita subsp. scheinvariana, is a small cactus that forms clumps of spherical to…
Mammillaria carmenae (Carmen Pincushion Cactus) is a small cactus with globose to ovoid stems with conical tubercles crowned with a woolly…
Mammillaria sempervivi is a small cactus with flattened globose to depressed globose stems with pyramidal tubercles with an abundance of…
Mammillaria senilis is a small, basally branching cactus that forms a clump of globose to cylindrical stems with conical tubercles and…
Mammillaria longimamma (Finger Cactus) is a small cactus with green stems covered with long tubercles tipped with scant white wool and a…
Mammillaria mazatlanensis is a small cactus that forms clusters of many greyish-green cylindrical stems with cone-shaped tubercles and…
Mammillaria bertholdii is a sensational small cactus with spherical stems with slender tubercles and strongly elongated areoles with…