What are some expensive cacti?
An article about the expensive cacti and recommendations of the four famous cacti in the field of green plants and flowers. Next, the editor will introduce to the netizens.
Cacti lovers are generally not unfamiliar with cacti because they also belong to a category of succulent plants, not only do they have a rich variety, but they also share similar habits with succulent plants. However, compared to the intolerance of high temperatures in most succulent plants, they are more heat and drought resistant, making them very suitable for summer care. Therefore, there is a saying in the succulent field that "it's more suitable to grow cacti in spring and autumn, and summer is even better!"
Cacti have a rich variety, not only different shapes but also beautiful flowers:
Compared to succulent plants, with their jelly-like colors and standard rosette shapes, cacti seem rather naive, not only are their bodies round or semi-round, even forming regular geometric shapes, but the surface of the cacti is also divided into distinct artistic angles by regular ridges. The spines on the ridge seats are hard or soft, and some varieties have white sugar-like granules distributed on the surface of the cacti. They not only grow slowly but also generally have beautiful flowers! For example,绯花玉 (Feihua Yu), 玉翁 (Yu Wang), 白雪光 (Bai Xue Guang), 鸾凤玉 (Luan Feng Yu), 星兜 (Xing Dou), etc., are all familiar varieties, but relatively, people know less about the "four famous cacti"!
Brief introduction to the "four famous cacti":
【1】Jushui:
Jushui cacti are native to Mexico, preferring a sunny, warm, and dry environment, often found on well-ventilated slopes rich in limestone and in canyons. Their gray-green, small size appears to be natural camouflage.
Jushui cacti have an oblate shape with the surface of the cacti made up of spirally arranged triangular succulent protuberances. The top of the cacti is covered with brown or grayish-white villous hair and densely covered with sharp spines. Although the root system is mainly composed of thick carrot roots, the growth rate is extremely slow in the dry and poor native environment, often single-headed, making it relatively rare.
The Jushui cacti available in the market today are mostly horticultural varieties propagated by grafting or seeding, and the growth rate is significantly higher than in the native environment. Jushui cacti have differences between golden spines and white spines, and they generally bloom in late spring and early summer. Different varieties have different flower colors and can be called Red Flower Jushui and Yellow Flower Jushui according to flower color.
What are some expensive cacti?
【2】Hualong:
Hualong, also known as the Wrinkled Cactus, belongs to the Cactaceae family, Wrinkled Cactus genus, and is a perennial succulent plant native to the limestone valleys and deep canyons of northeastern Mexico. Due to its slow growth rate and difficulty in reproduction, even in its native environment, the numbers are not large, and it has been listed as a rare and endangered wild plant species, protected by relevant laws.
Hualong has the difference between the old Hualong and the Hinton Hualong. The old Hualong not only has a dense arrangement of regular ridges on the cacti but also has ridges made up of dense horizontal lines. The cacti are light green or gray-green, with a natural flowering period from April to October. The flowers are terminal and the color is small magenta flowers; Hinton Hualong has relatively regular cacti, deep green in color, with brown soft spines on the ridges, and the natural flowering period is mainly from late spring to early summer, with small pink flowers.
Hualong can grow in groups, but the growth rate is extremely slow, mainly propagated by seeding, and can also be propagated by grafting with other robust cacti species.
【3】Di Guan:
Di Guan, also known as Di Guan Peony, is a small variety native to Mexico. Like the Turtle Shell Peony, it is a rock-growing variety with a well-developed root system that can tolerate drought and barrenness. The native environment is mainly in well-ventilated, warm, and dry limestone crevices. Like the Turtle Shell Peony, it grows slowly and is also an endangered rare wild plant in its native area.