I am not a professional nor an expert in Cactacea or Ferocactus-Echinocactus taxonomy. Any help with ID and spelling are always welcome. Photos are for reference only. To up-date my list I've been using many books, journals, catalogs and other web-sites. It's been helpful, but I have more work to do. I only ship to the main US 48 States. I do offer 72+ hour heat packs for $3.00 each. Please read the front page for ordering information.
Note: All plants on this page will be shipped bare root. Everything here can be purchased in their pots at the J & J greenhouse.
Echinocactus grusonii crest -
The typical Echinocactus
grusonii is
a big globular cactus commonly known as the "Golden barrel cactus" that is very
popular and widely grown for its golden-yellow striking long, golden spines, but
this beautiful crested form is still rare in cactus collection. The crested form
can also get very big making a spectacular specimen.
Flower are diurnal, vivid yellow. Central
Mexico. Growing in 6 inch pots.
- @ $30.00 each
Echinocactus grusonii crest -The
typical Echinocactus
grusonii is
a big globular cactus commonly known as the "Golden barrel cactus" that is very
popular and widely grown for its golden-yellow striking long, golden spines, but
this beautiful crested form is still rare in cactus collection. The crested form
can also get very big making a spectacular specimen.
Flower are diurnal, vivid yellow. Central
Mexico. Growing in 6 inch pots.
- Growing in 4 1/2 pots. - @ $20.00 each
Echinocactus grusonii crest -
The typical Echinocactus
grusonii is
a big globular cactus commonly known as the "Golden barrel cactus" that is very
popular and widely grown for its golden-yellow striking long, golden spines, but
this beautiful crested form is still rare in cactus collection. The crested form
can also get very big making a spectacular specimen.
Flower are diurnal, vivid yellow. Central
Mexico. Growing in 3 1/2 pots. - @ $15.00
each
Echinocactus texensis -
Echinocactus texensis,
best known in cultivation as Homalocephala
texensis,
is a stout barrel cactus, which is solitary when young, very rarely slowly
clustering in age. Flowers range from white thru rose-pink to pale
silvery-pink, with red throats in late spring.
Echinocactus texensis is
widespread and common in Texas, southeastern New Mexico, and Southern Oklahoma.
Growing in a 6" X 5" clay
pot. - #1 @ $40.00
Echinocactus texensis -
Echinocactus texensis,
best known in cultivation as Homalocephala
texensis,
is a stout barrel cactus, which is solitary when young, very rarely slowly
clustering in age. Flowers range from white thru rose-pink to pale
silvery-pink, with red throats in late spring.
Echinocactus texensis is
widespread and common in Texas, southeastern New Mexico, and Southern Oklahoma. Growing in 4 1/2 inch pots. -
left to right -
#1, #2, #3 @ $13.00 each
Ferocactus glaucescens 'inermis' -
Spineless with woolly top. This cultivar varies from pure nude specimens to
plants with one or few spine per areoles (Partially Nudum), but usually the
spines are present only in young plant or on new lateral branches completely
disappear in mature stems. Lemon
yellow, funnel-shaped flowers. Eastern Central Mexico.
Growing in 3 1/2 inch pots.
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Ferocactus pottsii ssp. alamosanus - Ferocactus
alamosanus is
small barrel cactus, usually solitary but sometimes clumping.
Flowers
greenish yellow. Mexico. Growing in 8
inch pots. - left to right - $20.00 each
Ferocactus pottsii ssp. alamosanus -
Ferocactus alamosanus is
small barrel cactus, usually solitary but sometimes clumping.
Flowers
greenish yellow. Mexico. Growing in 6
inch pots. - left to right - #1, #2, #3 @ $15.00 each
Ferocactus hamatacanthus -
Ferocactus hamatacanthus (a.k.a.
Turk's head) is a medium sized barrel cactus with spines somewhat variable in
number, diameter, and position, depending on origin. Flowers mostly yellow with
a pale green throat, in some forms scarlet within.
Southern
Texas, New Mexico, and northern Mexico. Growing in 4 1/2 inch pots. - left to right - #1, #2, #3, #4 @ $13.00 each
Ferocactus latispinus -
Ferocactus latispinus is
a modest-sized barrel cactus and probably the best-known of the ferocacti, and
if you want only one from this group, this is the one to choose. Three
subspecies are recognized, the nominate form and subsp. greenwoodii (Glass)
N.P.Taylor and subsp. spiralis (Karw.
ex Pfeiff.) N.P.Taylor.
Flowers: Campanulate,
beautiful “glassy” rich-rose, purple, mauve, purple-blue or, sometime,
straw-yellow, and fragrant up to 2,5-3,5(-6) cm long and about 3 cm broad.
Perianth segments narrowly oblong, acute. Scales on the ovary closely
imbricated, thin and papery, ovate with thin ciliate margins. Scales on flower
tube similar similar to those on the ovary but longer.
Blooming time: Late
autumn to early winter, usually in October, but it usually flowers only if the
weather is warm and sunny need a fair amount of bright sunlight to form. Unlike
most of the others, which usually need to reach relatively large size this
species blooms very early, many young plants will bloom when they reach only 10
cm in diameter. It might be noted that this is not true of the closelyrelated Ferocactus
latispinus ssp. spiralis (syn. Ferocactus
recurvus). Central
and Southern Mexico. Growing in 6 inch pots. - left to right - #1, #2, #3 @
$15.00 each
X Ferobergia X Echinocactus grosonii - The
x Ferobergia is
a horticultural intergeneric hybrid, made by crossing one of the various species
of Ferocactus (as
a female) and Leuchtenbergia
principis (as
a male). These hybrids are very variable, due to the intersection of characters
deriving from the parents. The length of the tubercles and spines are the more
variable of the trait and a great variety of forms can be found in cultivation.
And these were crossed to
Echinocactus grusonii is
a big globular cactus commonly known as the "Golden barrel cactus" that is very
popular and widely grown for its golden-yellow striking long, golden spines.
I like the spines and there colors. Growing in 6 inch pots. - @ $30.00
X Ferobergia X Echinocactus grosonii -The
x Ferobergia is
a horticultural intergeneric hybrid, made by crossing one of the various species
of Ferocactus (as
a female) and Leuchtenbergia
principis (as
a male). These hybrids are very variable, due to the intersection of characters
deriving from the parents. The length of the tubercles and spines are the more
variable of the trait and a great variety of forms can be found in cultivation.
And these were crossed to
Echinocactus grusonii is
a big globular cactus commonly known as the "Golden barrel cactus" that is very
popular and widely grown for its golden-yellow striking long, golden spines.
I like the spines and there colors. Growing in 6 inch pots. - @ $30.00
each
Leuchtenbergia principis - It has a strong
underground napiform root and in time forms an almost caudiciform trunk. It
doesn't look like a cactus at all, the tubercles are 10-13 cm long and look like
triangular agave-like leaves; Hence the common name "Agave Cactus".
Leuchtenbergia is
a monotypic genus (having only a single species).
Flowers: From
the areole at the tip of the new tubercles on mature plant (at least 4-5 years
old) large, funnel-shaped, fragrant, yellow, 5-10 cm wide. North-Central Mexico.
This is a collection plant but very healthy. Has 4 heads.
Growing in a 10" x 8" pot. - photos front, back top - #1
xlg @ $145.00
Leuchtenbergia principis - It has a strong
underground napiform root and in time forms an almost caudiciform trunk. It
doesn't look like a cactus at all, the tubercles are 10-13 cm long and look like
triangular agave-like leaves; Hence the common name "Agave Cactus".
Leuchtenbergia is
a monotypic genus (having only a single species).
Flowers: From
the areole at the tip of the new tubercles on mature plant (at least 4-5 years
old) large, funnel-shaped, fragrant, yellow, 5-10 cm wide. North-Central Mexico.
This is a collection plant but very healthy. Has 2 large heads & 3 small heads.
Growing in a 10" x 5 1/2" pot. - photos
front, back top - #2 xlg @ $165.00
Leuchtenbergia principis -
It has a strong underground napiform root and in time forms an almost
caudiciform trunk. It doesn't look like a cactus at all, the tubercles are 10-13
cm long and look like triangular agave-like leaves; Hence the common name "Agave
Cactus".
Leuchtenbergia is
a monotypic genus (having only a single species).
Flowers: From
the areole at the tip of the new tubercles on mature plant (at least 4-5 years
old) large, funnel-shaped, fragrant, yellow, 5-10 cm wide. North-Central Mexico.
Growing in a 6 inch pot. - #1 @ $40.00
Leuchtenbergia principis -
It has a strong underground napiform root and in time forms an almost
caudiciform trunk. It doesn't look like a cactus at all, the tubercles are 10-13
cm long and look like triangular agave-like leaves; Hence the common name "Agave
Cactus".
Leuchtenbergia is
a monotypic genus (having only a single species).
Flowers: From
the areole at the tip of the new tubercles on mature plant (at least 4-5 years
old) large, funnel-shaped, fragrant, yellow, 5-10 cm wide. North-Central Mexico.
Growing in 4 1/2 inch pots. - left to right - #1, #2
@ $18.00 each
Leuchtenbergia principis -
It has a strong underground napiform root and in time forms an almost
caudiciform trunk. It doesn't look like a cactus at all, the tubercles are 10-13
cm long and look like triangular agave-like leaves; Hence the common name "Agave
Cactus".
Leuchtenbergia is
a monotypic genus (having only a single species).
Flowers: From
the areole at the tip of the new tubercles on mature plant (at least 4-5 years
old) large, funnel-shaped, fragrant, yellow, 5-10 cm wide. North-Central Mexico.
Growing in 3 1/2 inch pots. - left to right - #1, #2, #3, #4
@ $15.00 each