Cacti of Mexico

Echeveria pulvinata - Grows to under 12 inches tall and 24 - 36 inches wide. A very attractive small shrubby plant to 6 to 12 inches tall and sprawling to several feet in width with rusty brown stems that are tipped with small rosettes holding thick spathulate green leaves with all parts densely covered with silvery white hairs so that the plant looks frosted. In late winter into spring (sometime later) appears the arching one foot tall inflorescence holding racemes of yellow and orange bell-shaped flowers less ↑

Ferocactus glaucescens (glaucous barrel cactus) is a species of flowering plant in the family Cactaceae, native to the limestone hills of Hidalgo, Mexico. It is a spherical or cyclindrical cactus growing to 60 cm (24 in) in diameter, with long yellow spines and yellow flowers in summer. In cultivation in temperate regions it must be grown under glass. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. less ↑