Small caudex with finger-like branches, white blooms on tips
Cactus and Succulents - Part Sun
Beaucarnea gracilis
Large swollen caudex-forming branched tree, to 20 feet tall.
Beaucarnea guatemalensis
Large swollen caudex-forming branched tree, to 15ft.
Beaucarnea recurvata
Large swollen caudex to 6+ft., 10-15ft. tall.
A stunning slow-growing specimen plant with long thin arching leaves atop thick branches and a swollen trunk. Mature branches send out cream-colored bloom stalks in Spring.
Bombax ellipticum
(Pseudobombax ellipticum)
Deciduous tree with succulent stems and large green/brown caudex, can form a tree over 10ft. tall. Large green leaves are smaller and red in full sun.
Brachychiton acerifolius
Bottle Tree, older stems will form a wrinkly grey bark. Beautiful lobed leaves. Waxy red flowers. Drought tolerant.
Brachychiton rupestris
Semi-Deciduous tree
Palmate leaves accent an elegant, rubenesque, bottle-shaped trunk. Cream and red flowers in late spring to early summer.
Brasiliopuntia brasiliensis
Abundant thin green pads and bright yellow flowers. Grows tall, tree-like with a large round trunk forming.
Brighamia insignis
Small tree to 6’t. w/swollen base. From Kauai, endangered.
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
Calandrinia grandiflora
Cistanthe grandiflora
Low-mounding shrub with bunches of bright magenta flowers.
Calandrinia spectabilis
Low-mounding shrub with bunches of bright magenta flowers.
Calibanus hookeri
Large caudex, 1 to 2 feet, with grassy leaves, winter-growing, outside in Bay Area
Caralluma baldratii
Orbea baldratii
Narrow-stemmed Stapeliad with deep burgundy starfish-shaped flowers.
Caralluma europaea
Low-growing, mat-forming Stapeliad with small burgundy carrion-flowers. Will grow best if allowed to go cool in winter, but protect from frost.
Caralluma luntii
Sprawling stems, spider-like carrion flowers. Yemen.
Caralluma socotrana
Whitish branches, spreads readily, lots of red flowers on the tips in summer. Bare stems look like bleached coral. Large clumps 10-12″ tall. Rot-prone in winter makes it difficult to keep alive through to spring.
Ceiba speciosa
Bottle tree to 50 ft. in ground with dense thorns on trunk. Deciduous.
Cephalopentandra ecirrhosa
Caudex develops “pimples,” or fissures, as it ages. In the Cucurbitaceae family, forms wild-growing vines with large lobed green leaves and large yellow-green squash-blossom flowers.
Ceraria namaquensis
Very slow growing shrub to 6’h. with tiny ovoid green leaves
Cereus “Fairy Castle”
C. hildmannianus ssp. uruguayanus fa. monstrose “Fairy Castles”
C. peruvianus fa. monstrose
Large clusters of tightly spaced stems, to 2ft tall.
Cereus fa. monstrose
C. peruvianus fa. monstrose
Scalloped columns, blue; varies – some specimens very branchy, tall
Cereus fa. monstrose “Minima”
C. repandus fa. monstrose “Minima”
Small bumpy columns – varied branchy
Cereus spegazzinii
Sprawling/climbing to 3ft., blooms at night, white w/pink edge
Cereus spegazzinii fa. cristata
Beautiful small crests popping out all over!
Cereus “Ming Thing”
C. validus fa. monstrose “Ming Thing”
A blue cactus with short and lumpy monstrose growth, to 12″ tall. Do not overwater, it is slow growing and likes to be dry.
Ceropegia sandersonii
Vining Stapeliad with massive unusual parachute-like flowers.