Rare form – smooth variegated skin with shades of green, yellow, or orange.
Cactus and Succulents - Extra Chunky
Astrophytum niveum
Small, slow-grower, deeply grooved
Astrophytum ornatum
Dark green, red in sun; can grow columnar to 4ft.
Avonia buderiana
Thin papery scales over tiny leaves; 2″l. stems; white flowers; dry, fast-draining soil
Avonia herreana
Anacampseros herreana
Tiny caudiciform, many branches covered practically solid in white “leaves”. Rare and hard to grow. Light roots, water lightly. Small yellow flowers. Keep dry in winter.
Avonia lanigera
Branches 1 1/2″ across, 2-3″ h. with hairy rosettes
Avonia quinaria ssp. alstonii
Small caudex with finger-like branches, white blooms on tips
Bulbine aff diphylla
Grows in rocky soils, lots of sun. Bulbous base, narrow green upright leaves. Yellow flowers. Winter growing.
Bulbine aff wiesei
Green narrow leaves. Yellow flowers. Winter growing.
Bulbine margarethae x haworthioides
Will form a small underground caudex. Yellow flowers. We grow them outside in the Bay Area year round, hardy if in very fast draining soil, though we don’t know how cold hardy.
Bulbine mesembryanthemoides
Also Bulbine mesembryanthoides
Small fat windowed green leaves with translucent tops. Grows in rocky soils. Winter growing. Goes dormant in summer, often down to the ground. Flowers in spring. Easy to grow in fast draining soils.
Bulbine natalensis
Bursera fagaroides
Bonsai tree, large caudex w/fragrant sap and peeling bark. Can grow 5ft tall and lots of wild branches. Deciduous in winter.
Bursera microphylla
Freely branching shrub, natural bonsai; papery white bark, small leaflet pairs
Bursera morelensis
Freely branching small tree; peeling bark, small leaflet pairs
Carnegiea gigantea
Classic giant cactus from the American Southwest. Slow growing. Will grow their first arm around 75-100 years old and can live 150-200 years. Some populations hardy to 15F if dry in winter.
“It can take 10 years for a saguaro cactus to reach 1 inch in height. By 70 years of age, a saguaro cactus can reach 6 and a half feet tall, and will finally start to produce their first flowers. By 95-100 years in age, a saguaro cactus can reach a height of 15-16 feet, and could start to produce its first arm.”
https://www.nps.gov/orpi/learn/nature/saguaro-cactus.htm
Cheiridopsis denticulata
Dwarf shrublet with paired leaves in the Iceplant family. Tiny little teeth-like protrusions on the tips of the leaves. Variable flower colors from pale-peach to bright yellow. May also be the same species as Cheiridopsis candidissima.
Cheiridopsis speciosa
Dwarf shrublet with paired leaves in the Iceplant family. Variable flower colors – Yellow, magenta, red, orange and lilac.
Cochemiea setispina
Small clumps 12″ x 18″; bright red tubular blooms
Coleocephalocereus aureus
Thin golden spines, stems grow vertical to 4ft tall. Keep dry in winter. Roots can die back easily, take care when transplanting. Lateral cephalium with small yellow flowers when mature.
Conophytum bilobum
Small and variable
Conophytum minutum
Very small round paired leaves.
Copiapoa esmeraldana
Grows along the cliff edges of the Atacama desert in Northern Chile. Small, rotund, with prominent tubercules. Variable flowers, white to yellow, grow from the woolly cephalium. Slow growing, generally solitary, to 10″.
Copiapoa humilis
Small round barrel will eventually grow to about 4″, sometimes clumps. New stems are dark purple, age to a greenish tan. Yellow flowers from the woolly area on top.
Copiapoa hypogaea var. barquitensis
Small round solitary barrel will eventually grow vertical to 5″ tall. Very slow growing. Yellow flowers in summer.
Crassula plegmatoides
C. arta
Small greyish columns of stacked rounded leaves with an almost felt-like soft appearance. Winter-growing, very low water.
Cylindropuntia bigelovi
Opuntia bigelovi
Mojave and Sonora Deserts. Classic golden-spined Jumping Cholla. Slow growing.
Cylindropuntia fulgida v. mammillata fa. monstrose
A branched monstrose cholla that will often form crests. The new growth is bronze and fades to grey-green as it ages. It uncommonly produces magenta flowers. Prone to rot if wet and cold. Prone to rot if wet and cold.
Dinteranthus pole-evansii
South Africa; Mesemb Family, very low water, yellow flowers
Dioscorea discolor
Tropical vine w/slow-developing caudex; winter-dormant