My fav nth americans

Top left two and bottom right are ariocarpus retusus scapharostaroides, bottom left obregonia denegri , bottom middle astophytum jamuave and top right is ariocarpus hintonii prbably my fav of all ariocarpus.

Hey CC you need to give us some sort of explanation & description... there may be more people like me out there with no idea what these are but ill have a crack and say ariocarpus retusus & astrophytum blah blah blah oh and one of those ario's with the wrinkled tubircles in top right... thats the best i can do after 8 beers.

That Hintonii is very nice. Do you have a solo pic of it ?

Ariocarpus hintonii

Stenocactus vaupelianus

stenocactus zacetacasensis

I love the long spines on this one.

I have lots of this species some with field collection no's and others i purchased with names but i am sceptical of some names and am aware that there a lots of hybrids and some seed i have raised show alot different characteristics.

those plants look wicked dont they... i bought one recently named echinofossilocactus or something like that... did they merge this species?

was formely echinofossilocactus now stenocactus although many still use echinofossilocactus i its just to long to write echinofossilocactus and i get sick of writing echinofosssillacactus so i use stenocactus.

I don't like echinofossulatus as a name, and it's older too. On the other hand, steno = narrow in greek, so stenocactus is a very appropriate name for this genus. I had 7 of them and I recently bought a steno crest plus some more, which were probably mis-IDed {I think my crest is supposed to be vaupelianus]. Like you said, they hybridise a lot, so sometimes they are mis-IDed or very hard to ID or more commonly they're sold unamed. I love them for this fact too, as I like to try to find out what genes are in each of them.

I love this genus as well, and my own are very different from your ones Ccook. Are these seed grown?


Great arios too

Yes these are seed grown i have many more i love the variation even in a group of seedlings there are many different ones. I think seed from these batches come from a hybrid somewere along the lines. I have plants from seed from steve brack and they seem to all be very close looking and close to descriptions will show pics later.

My carnegiea gigantea

Ferocactus latispinus

Fero with fruit they take a year to ripen i have approx twenty this size all ready to go into the ground in spring. I will take prep photos an update photos on cactus bed as i make progress.

This is my myrtillocactus geometrizans cristate.

Ferocactus chrysacanthus one of my fav fero's

Ariocarpus agavoides

Astrophytum ornatum these have all flowered i have some a little smaller with better markings. Some of these will go into my garden bed in spring.

Nice Myrtle

That crest myrtillo is cool! Did it crest on its own or was it from a cutting? I have one that is a bit wider, it is from a cutting.It started to rot so it put it on a tricho and it's doing fine.
This is one of my all time favorite plants. I think the called it the dinosaur back.
Needless to say the grafting knives will be out for this on come spring.

I'm loving these crested myrtles... really beautiful plants. Those ornatums are pretty special too.

I was given a cutting from lester meyers when i was there last i could only hope it turns into half the speciman as yours its is very impressive.