Echinocereus Species

Plants are much hardier than only zone 10 at 30F. Plants grown in Arizona have survived 20F just fine.

I am relatively new to growing cacti, but have been impressed by the spectacular flowers of some species... but this plant not only has g...Read Morereat flowers- pinky-peach with a flourescent lime-green centers- but the flowering continues for weeks and weeks (unlike Echinopsis, which shows off for a day or so, and that's that). Great cactus for any garden of the right climate! Plant itself is a nice purply color in cooler weather, and not terrifically dangerous, either.

There appears to be quite a variation in spination- at least in presence and length of spines, unless someone has some plants misidentified (could be me)... a search on line produced many heavily spined plants like the first photo above, but nearly as many nearly 'naked' cacti with little or no spines... flowers seem to be consistent. I have the 'naked' version (much prefer anyway) growing in southern California.

One of the softer-stemmed Echinocerei,this has more upright stems then most,Flowers well.