I see we have some late blooming barrel cactus at the store. Nice!

Ferocactus glaucescens

Ferocactus pottsi

For some reason, people always like the 2nd flower better. Weird!

Opuntia microdasys “Aurea”

Dotted with tiny glochids, mounding small pads to 3ft.
Hardy to 20F

Hey there, guys…
Sorry to bother you, but does the tagged specimen look like a positive id for Eriosyce occulta? The tag says that but it looks like more a copiapoa to me.

The untagged one looks like an eriosyce, too, perhaps?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks again!
Joey

Joey,

It’s not a Copiapoa. It’s probably an Eriosyce that has been greenhouse grown. The spines at top are black, and you can look for a taproot when you replant it. Or wait until it flowers for a final ID. There are others it could be like a Coryphantha, but it would be a rare Coryphantha with black spines, so it is most likely the Eriosyce.

I don’t know the untagged one, but I don’t think it is E. occulta. I’ll post it to the blog, but you may have to wait until it flowers – send us a picture when it does!

Peter

Opuntia “Maverick” on 10th St in Berkeley.

Opuntia robusta

Tall, fast growing blue prickly pear with large round pads
 
 Hardy to 20F 
 Sun
Cactus Soil
Low Water
 

Don’t do this. Don’t paint your cactus.

Coryphantha delaetiana – Beehive Cactus
 
3″ across, solitary. Rhomboid tubercles. Pale yellow flowers.
  Hardy to 25F 
  Full Sun to Part Sun
  Cactus Soil
  Low Water

Tephrocactus articulatus v. papyracanthus

Papery-spines w/glochids; 6″; Hardy to 25°F
  
The stems break off readily and go rolling around, then they root and presto! You’re cloning a new plant. Nice!
   

Opuntia “Baby Rita”
 
Small pads, will grow 3 feet tall. Very spiny pads turn purple in winter.
 
Hardy to 15F 
  
Full Sun to Part Sun
 
Cactus Soil
 
Low Water

Mammilaria elongata

Mexico

Long stems, 1″ diameter, clumping; tight star-shape spines. Small cream-colored flowers form a crown around the tips of the stems.

Hardy to 25F

Full Sun

Cactus Soil

Low Water

Anne’s latest Cactus Terrarium us a custom job for a customer’s terrarium glass.

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Opuntia linguiformis

Just off San Pablo Ave in Berkeley

Cylindropuntia prolifera

Berkeley cactus garden.

4th Street, Berkeley

Aloe nobilis blooms and a Nopalea cochenilifera too!

This is actually in our front bed at the store. Nice!

From the Cactus Jungle Facebook Page comes a Cactus Question:

Question: Echinopsis hybrid. My friend brought him to Florida. Any idea what the brown growth is all about?

Barbra Ann

Barbra Ann,

Nice flowers! The cactus is an Echinopsis eyriesii – Easter Lily Cactus. It’s called “barking” and the cactus is forming bark at the base of the plant with age.

Peter

San Pablo Ave, Berkeley

Flowering cholla among the bamboo.

Apparently we have an Italian namesake – Cactus Jungle, Italy – and they make fabric cactuses.

Very nice! Welcome to the Cactus Jungle family! Now do we get a share of their profits?

From my mother-in-law in Idaho comes a picture of some beautiful cactus in bloom; and a cousin made a cactus sculpture out of horseshoes.

Nice!

It’s a Monday holiday miracle! The largest, most colorful Epi bloom I have ever captured on digital film.

Epiphyllums are often called Orchid Cactus, and sometimes called Night Blooming Cereus, but that last one would be wrong. Although some epi’s are night bloomers, most are not and none of the Epiphyllums are Cereuses. Cereus are Cereuses. And some true night blooming Cereus are almost as spectacular as this day blooming Epiphyllum. But then you’d have to wake up in the middle of the night for those, but not for these.

Opuntia basilaris v. caudata – Beavertail Cactus – amazing and beautiful.

Compact variety. Smaller pads than the species, often heart-shaped. Will stay as low as 1 foot tall, but will spread 4 feet wide.

• Hardy to 0F if very dry
• Full Sun to Part Sun
• Cactus Soil
• Low Water

Prickly Pear season starts with Opuntia “Baby Rita”, a santa-rita hybrid with small and spiny pads.

Small pads, will grow 3 feet tall. Very spiny pads turn purple in winter.

• Hardy to 15F
• Full Sun to Part Sun
• Cactus Soil
• Low Water

Blooming? Check! … Cactus? You bet! … Species? No idea…. 🙁

Found here: DIMENSÃO7

Rikki drove the 5 hours to go to the Huntington’s Spring Sale and got us some nifty pictures (some plants too…)

Looks like an Aloe peglerae in front. Probably not. Never mind.

Those are surely Echinocactus grusonii with some agressive Agaves too.

Ceiba speciosa! So big, so spiny.

Dyckia in front!

Parodia leninghausii

Opuntia santa-rita

Espostoa melanostele

Echinopsis leucantha

Those are nice.

Echinopsis pachanoi

This giant plant with 6 full size branches is now officially the 2nd most expensive cactus we’ve had out on the floor for sale, after the giant multi barrel Echinocactus grusonii that sold last year, but more than the previous San Pedro king that sold 7 years ago.

Come and check it out before it sells!

So tall!

The flowering cactus are out in full force, full bloom, full glorious sunshine today and all weekend long! Now is definitely the time to get an eyeful.

These are all what we call Echinocereus grandiflora Hybrids, but others call them Tricho-Lobivia Hybrids. I would tell you why the others are wrong, but that would probably bore you to tears, so I will only leave you with this one word of advice: Don’t trust the Botanists.

Lots of cactus are blooming today what with the heat and the hot and the sunshine too.

Coryphantha delaetiana is the classic Beehive Cactus from Durango, Mexico. Regular and reliable bloomers. We see new buds coming throughout the spring and summer usually.