Uebelmannia Species

Here all this time i thought i had a burned Parodia sp. and it's this cacti instead. Survived the freezing temps of 07 with no damage.I p...Read Morerefer the look of the greenhouse grown original green with white stripes, over the frost brown color it shows in full sun. I have to wonder if it grows in full sun or shaded by trees in it's habitat?.

Even though this is a tropical cactus and isn't supposed to handle my climate, I have had one outdoors for about 8 years and it gets fros...Read Moreted every year. Yeah, it doesn't look perfect, but it doesn't take much to scar this delicate species. It is one of the most beautiful cactus species in my opinion, having a dark green, firm, almost lizard-skin textured 'skin', nice angularity to it's overall spherical shape and linear arrays of not-too-viscious black spines down it's sides on a white fluffy background. It's a striking cactus and most people seem to notice it before all others in the garden. It's a Brazilian native.