P. palmeri
Tree-like cactus with tufts of wool and funnel shaped blooms. Stunning waxy blue stems with golden spines. Can be grown outside during the summer but should be protected from frost. Keep dry in the winter.
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Pilosocereus pachycladus
P. azureus
Tree-like to 30+ft. tall; glaucous stems, golden spines.
Stunning waxy blue cactus with golden spines and wool along the ribs. Can be grown outside during the summer but should be kept inside, or dry under an overhang for the winter in the Bay Area.
Polaskia chichipe
Tree-like growth with branches growing at the top. Curved trunk when grown from seed. Chartreuse night-flowers, edible “chichituna” red fruit. Branches wide, grows to 15ft. tall.
Pterocactus tuberosus
Caudiciform opuntioid. Prostrate stems, large underground roots. Can lose all above ground stems in winter. Copper-orange flowers. Keep cool and dry in winter.
Quiabentia verticillata
Shrubby trees in the Opuntioideae Subfamily to 50 ft. tall.
Rabiea difformis
Small clumps of a few thick leaves in rocky soils. Tuberous roots. Yellow flowers spring and summer.
Rebutia arenacea
Sulcorebutia arenacea
Small clumps of 1-2″ round stems, yellow flowers.
Rebutia donaldiana
R. fiebrigii var. densiseta
Small clusters of small stems, orange flowers
Rebutia fabrisii
Clusters of small 1″ round stems, orange to red blooms open spring thru summer. Spiraling spots of small bristly spines along the stems. Easy to grow from separated stems, gently tease them apart in early spring before the buds start to form.
Rebutia fiebrigii
R. muscula
Clumping spiny 1″ barrel blooms in spring/summer
Rebutia fulviseta
Small clusters of small round stems. Dark green flesh hidden behind dark brown spines. Dark red flowers.
Rebutia heliosa
Clumping small 2″ barrels with orange blooms in spring. Very distinctive with silver white spines. Stems grow only a few inches tall.
Rebutia heliosa v. melanistic
“Short Spined” variety
Clustering small stems, variable red to magenta flowers, spiraling ribs with prominent tubercles. Elongate areoles. Short, tiny brown spines. Purple-tinged stems in full sun.
Rebutia kupperiana
Mini barrels to 3-4″; dark stems, many long spines; red blooms.
Rebutia marsoneri
R. krainziana
Clumping barrels to 2″; dark stems, white spines. Yellow-orange to red flowers. Red flowered plants used to be called R. krainziana.
Rebutia mentosa
Freely clumping 2 1/2″ flattened stems.
Rebutia minuscula
Clumping small 1″ barrels with hordes of blooms in spring
Rebutia narvaecensis
Generally clumping small 1″ barrels with hordes of blooms in spring
Rebutia neocumingii ssp. trollii
Orange flowers. Usually solitary, will eventually grow 8″ high.
Rebutia perplexa
Generally clumping small 1″ barrels with hordes of blooms in late Spring
Rebutia pulvinosa
Large clusters of 1/2″ to 1″ stems. Orange flowers.
Rebutia pygmaea
Clumping small stems to 1″ with variable blooms
Sansevieria “Boncel”
S. cylindrica v. patula “Boncel”
S. “Starfish”
Tight fans of thick spear-shaped green and white leaves. A compact snake plant makes a great low water houseplant, moderate to bright light.
Sansevieria hallii “Baseball Bat”
Thick wide-open splayed blue-green leaves with thin red edges.. Stemless, grows from rhuizomes, will grow 3-4ft.
Sansevieria patens
Thick spear-shaped ribbed green leaves. A compact snake plant makes a great low water houseplant, moderate to bright light. Underground 1″ rhizomes.
Sclerocactus scheeri
Ancistrocactus scheeri
Solitary, 4″d. x 6″tall. Green flowers, hooked spines. Tuberous roots.
Stenocactus “Palmillas”
S. crispatus “Palmillas”
Echinofossulocactus palmillas
Small cactus with wavy ribs.
Stenocactus crispatus
4″ solitary barrel, undulating ribs, variable spines
Stenocactus multicostatus
Generally solitary barrel with many thin undulating ribs (50-150). Cylindrical 3-4″. Highly variable spination in cultivation so we are not certain of the ID of our specimens. Slow growing, but easy to care for.
Stenocereus pruinosus
Tree-like, many branched to 15ft. White flowers, edible fruit.