Glenhirst Cactus Nursery UK - True Cacti & Epiphytic Cacti

True Cacti & Epiphytic Cacti

Cacti are stem succulent plants that have originated in hot and dry areas in the Americas. They are tolerant plants and are very easy to care for. Their leaves have changed into spines growing from furry areoles. These spines, which vary from a bristly down to ferocious hooks and come in a range of attractive colours, protect the plants from the heat and from grazing animals. The stems grow in simple shapes like spheres and columns, often with ribs and tubercles, to store scarce water supplies.

Cacti are appealing not only for their attractive and unusual shapes and spination, but also for their stunning flowers. Some people think that cacti don’t flower or that they only flower once every ten years. But most cacti will flower every year just like every other plant. Some of the little globular cacti, like rebutias (see above picture), are renowned for their beauty and readiness to flower.

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PLANT CODE	PLANT NAME	DESCRIPTION	ADD TO BASKET
502 £2.45	ACANTHOCALYCIUM PEITSCHERIANUM	white to lilac pink flowers
532 £2.45	ARIOCARPUS RETUSUS	rare, slow growing. Develops a large tap-root and huge grey tubercles, cream flowers
540 £2.45	ASTROPHYTUM CAPRICORNE	superb, white-speckled body, 'goat-horn' spines. Large yellow flowers
546 £2.45	ASTROPHYTUM HYBRIDS	obtained by crossing many different pairs of species of Astrophytum. Anything could turn up here. This is your chance to own some plants like no others and guaranteed to look good
548 £2.45	ASTROPHYTUM MYRIOSTYGMA	called the 'Bishop's Cap Cactus' because of its 5 angular ribs. It is a very attractive plant, closely spotted with white and completely spineless. It has large yellow flowers
576 £2.45	CARNEGIA GIGANTEA	the large branching and famous 'Cowboy cactus', but don't worry it takes years to grow to its full size!
586 £2.45	CEREUS HILDMANNIANUS	greyish green, robust, branching, ribbed columns that eventually grow very tall. Very large white flowers
591 £2.45	CEREUS PERUVIANUS	tall growing blue-green columns with 6 to 8 ribs. Large white flowers on old specimens. In recent years this plant has got the reputation for absorbing rays emitted from computer screens. Whether or not it is true, we do not know, but we have sold many of these plants to a big insurance company!!
593.2 £2.45	CEREUS XANTHOCARPA	columnar plants eventually growing a few metres tall. Deeply ribbed stems, bluish to light green in colour. Older plants produce huge pure white flowers
630 £2.45	CLEISTOCACTUS MORAWETZIANUS	shrubby or tree-like body with grey-green stems, pale spines and long white flowers with greenish or faintly pink sheen
716 £2.45	DOLICOTHELE (MAMMILLARIA) LONGIMAMMA	noteworthy for its large pale yellow flowers and long pale green tubercles
728 £2.45	ECHINOCACTUS GRUSONII	Golden Barrel Cactus - covered in stout yellow spines, very attractive
735.2 £2.45	ECHINOCEREUS AMOENUS	unusually attractive spherical plants with white spines arranged in tufts along the ribs. Deep pink flowers
744 £2.45	ECHINOCEREUS BERLANDIERII	branching plants, soon forming a prostrate clump of cylindrical stems. Long-lasting, large pink flowers
779 £2.45	ECHINOCEREUS SCHEERII GENTRYI	clustering ribbed stems with large, long lasting, pale pink flowers
789 £2.45	ECHINOCEREUS LAUII	short spined clustering stems with large, deep pink, long-lived flowers
797.1 £2.45	ECHINOCEREUS NIVOSUS	one of the choice members of the genus with dense, fine white spines, and large glossy pink flowers
815 £2.45	ECHINOCEREUS REICHENBACHII BAILEYII	white spines tinged pink, large light purple flowers. Hardy outside in the UK
845 £2.45	ECHINOCEREUS VIERECKII MORICALII	freely offsetting erect with stems up to 20 cm tall. Yellow spines and very large violet-pink flowers
866 £2.45	ECHINOFOSSULOCACTUS PHYLLACANTHUS	white spined, round plants with numerous wavy ribs. Abundant cream and brown flowers
936 £4.25	EPITHELANTHA MICROMERIS	difficult to obtain species with a complete cover of short, pure white spines. flowers in colours from white to pinkish-red
942 £4.25	EPITHELANTHA PACHYRHIZA	a slow growing rare species. It grows to about 10cm tall and elongates with age. It is covered in fine white spines and has very pale pink flowers.
1031 £2.45	GYMNOCALYCIUM ACHIRASENSE	olive green with many stout spines. White flowers flushed with pink, often growing larger than the plant!
1034 £2.45	GYMNOCALYCIUM AMBATOENSE	globular, up to 15cm across, with powerful, curving straw-coloured spines. Large white flowers with pink midstripe
1038 £2.45	GYMNOCALYCIUM ANISITSII	has numerous, large white flowers
1049 £2.45	GYMNOCALYCIUM BAYRIANUM	bluish-green body bearing glossy creamy-white flowers with pink throats
1056 £2.45	GYMNOCALYCIUM BRUCHII	choice miniature, clustering species with lilac flowers
1061 £2.45	GYMNOCALYCIUM CARMINANTHUM	strong white curving spines, deep maroon flowers
1078 £2.45	GYMNOCALYCIUM DAMSII TUCAVOCENSE	a deep green species offsetting freely from the areoles. Large pale pink flowers
1084 £2.45	GYMNOCALYCIUM EURYPLEURUM	white flowers with slight pinkish hue. Olive-green globular plants, up to 7cm across, with stout glassy spines
1088 £2.45	GYMNOCALYCIUM GIBBOSUM	olive green, sometimes almost black, plants with 6 to 7cm long white flowers. Hardy outside in the UK
1093.1 £2.45	GYMNOCALYCIUM HORSTII V. BUENEKERI	a darker green body and stronger spines than GYMNOCALYCIUM HORSTII, and bearing dark pink flowers
1100 £2.45	GYMNOCALYCIUM MIHANOVICHII	olive green to brown plants, freely producing yellow or pink flowers
1111 £2.45	GYMNOCALYCIUM MULTIFLORUM (OURSELIANUM)	bright green plants having flattened, curved, yellow spines. Bell shaped, pink flowers shading to almost white
1128 £2.45	GYMNOCALYCIUM QUEHLIANUM	white flowers with red throat
1144 £2.45	GYMNOCALYCIUM SAGLIONE	white flowers suffused with pink.
1159 £2.45	GYMNOCALYCIUM STELLATUM	olive green to grey green, brown or black spines; large pure white flowers
1163 £2.45	GYMNOCALYCIUM VALNICEKIANUM	one of the largest growing Gymnocalyciums, up to 30 cm tall and 18cm across. Olive green plants with grey spines. Flowers white with a reddish throat
1176 £2.45	HAMATOCACTUS SETISPINUS	yellow flowers with red centre produced throughout the year. Globular plants
1218.3 £2.45	LOBIVIA ACANTHOPLEGMA ROSEIFLORA	has easily produced magenta flowers with striking white centres
1232.1 £2.45	LOBIVIA ARACHNACANTHA TORRECILLASENSIS	small clumping and with large glossy purple flowers.
1242 £2.45	LOBIVIA AUREA SCHAFERI	clustering stems to 25cm tall, large yellow flowers
1296 £2.45	LOBIVIA LAUII	magenta to pinky red flowers. A form of Lobivia hertrichiana.
1300.2 £2.45	LOBIVIA MAXMILLIANA V CHARACANENSIS	clumping olive green heads, eventually becoming elongated, with cream spines, yellow flowers, 6cm across
1314 £2.45	LOBIVIA ROSARIONA	globular dark green glossy plants with long spines and 7cm long yellow flowers
1321 £2.45	LOBIVIA SCHREITERI	dark green clustering. Flowers are orange to dark red with black throat
1328 £2.45	LOBIVIA WRIGHTIANA	desirable species with pale cerise flowers
1330 £2.45	LOBIVIA ZECHERI	bluish-green plants with violet-red flowers
1402.1 £2.45	MAMMILLARIA ARMILLATA	cylindrical bluish-green body up to 30cm tall and sprouting at the base, flowers range from white, pink to red
1428 £2.45	MAMMILLARIA BOCASANA	clustering species with masses of white wool and white spines, cream or pink flowers
1432 £2.45	MAMMILLARIA BOMBYCINA	light carmine flowers, very attractive spines
1434 £2.45	MAMMILLARIA BOOLII	a choice species covered in glassy-white spines some hooked. Large pink flowers
1440 £2.45	MAMMILLARIA BUXBAUMERIANA	attractive dense spination, white with black tips. Pale yellow flowers
1449 £2.45	MAMMILLARIA CANDIDA ROSEA	a 'snowball cactus', covered in fine spines, pink at first then changing to pure white. White and pink flowers
1458 £2.45	MAMMILLARIA CENTRALIPLUMOSA	crowns of bell-shaped, yellowish-green and pink flowers
1488 £2.45	MAMMILLARIA DIXANTHOCENTRON	attractive, symmetrical, white spined plants bearing light red flowers. Columnar with age
1527 £2.45	MAMMILLARIA GEMINISPINA	freely offsetting to form cushions. Stiff, white spines. Cream flowers with carmine centre
1536 £2.45	MAMMILLARIA GLASSII	a charming species covered in pure white hair and fine tangled spines. Soon forms an attractive clump. Delicate pink flowers
1537 £2.45	MAMMILLARIA GLASSII ASCENSIONIS	covered in fluffy white spines and rapidly clumping. Pink flowers and one of the earliest to flower.
1568 £2.45	MAMMILLARIA HAHNIANA	desirable species with long white hairs, turkey-red flowers. Robust and easy to grow.
1600.5 £2.45	MAMMILLARIA ISOTENSIS	upto 15cm tall and 5cm wide, clumping, white spines and carmine flowers
1649 £2.45	MAMMILLARIA MARTINEZII (SUPERTEXTA)	the covering of soft white spines is pierced by a ring of carmine flowers near the crown of the plant
1652 £2.45	MAMMILLARIA MATUDAE	out of the ordinary species, cylindrical body with masses of light purple flowers. Very attractive spination
1653 £2.45	MAMMILLARIA MAZATLANENSIS	clumping cylindrical stems, impressive maroon flowers.
1662 £2.45	MAMMILLARIA MEYRANII	has many purple flowers, white spines
1676 £2.45	MAMMILLARIA MICROHELIA	cream and brown spines against a grey green stem make this a very good looker. Pink or yellowish flowers
1706 £2.45	MAMMILLARIA NOUREDDINEANA	becoming cylindrical and reaching up to 15cm tall. white spines and white wool at the top of the plant which bears lots of maroon flowers
1794 £2.45	MAMMILLARIA SEMPERVIVA	sparsely spined, greyish-green plants with cream, red and olive-green flowers
1787 £2.45	MAMMILLARIA SPHAERICA	showy plants with soft, white spines, long pale green tubercles and large, pale yellow flowers
1812 £2.45	MAMMILLLARIA SURCULOSA	choice, large yellow flowers, clumping
1852 £2.45	MAMMILLARIA VON WYSSIANA	white-spined, spherical; pink flowers produced on very young plants
1888 £2.45	MAMMILLARIA ZEILMANNIANA	superb freely-flowering species with rings of lilac flowers. One of the best mammillarias for a long and showy display of flowers
1904.1 £2.45	MATUCANA AUREIFLORA	interesting curly spines, unusually flowers stay open day and night
1906 £2.45	MATUCANA HAYNEI	very attractive plants entirely covered with white spines. Large orange, red and violet flowers
1906.1 £2.45	MATUCANA MYRIACANTHA	globular or slightly cylindrical, with lots of short white or cream spines. Masses of glossy pink and white tubular flowers
1907.3 £2.45	MATUCANA RITTERI	olive-green plants with 9cm long, tubular red flowers
1941 £2.45	NEOPORTERIA HUASCENSIS	short cylindrical dark green-brown plants with very pale pink flowers
1952 £2.45	NEOPORTERIA MICROSPERMA	very dark olive green or black plants with grey spines and deep pink flowers
1954 £2.45	NEOPORTERIA MULTICOLOR	purple to brown plants with bristly white spines and carmine pink flowers
1935.2 £2.45	NEOPORTERIA NAPINA	a greyish-green or reddish species having black spines. Large, pale yellow flowers with long, flocky hairs
1955 £2.45	NEOPORTERIA NIDUS	soft dense white spines interlace over the top of the plant to form a basketwork through which its bicoloured pink and yellow flowers push
1972 £2.45	NEOPORTERIA REICHEI	cylindrical grey plants with glossy yellow flowers
1936 £2.45	NEOPORTERIA TALTALENSIS	short cylindrical plants, green-black with long grey spines. Large pinkish-purple flowers
1975 £2.45	NEOPORTERIA VILLOSA	grows into a dark green, almost black, plant with grey spines and magenta flowers
2028 £2.45	NOTOCACTUS MAGNIFICUS	a very desirable species with blue frosted bodies and white felted ribs. Sulphur yellow flowers
2056 £2.45	NOTOCACTUS OTTONIS	very attractive deep glossy green plants, with large silky yellow flowers
2064 £2.45	NOTOCACTUS ROSEOLUTEUS	coppery-green plants with a crown covered in white wool. Particularly large, bell-shaped, glossy flowers in shades of salmon and yellow
2068 £2.45	NOTOCACTUS RUTILANS	unusual, choice species, flowers large, carmine shading to yellow and white in the throat
2077 £2.45	NOTOCACTUS SCHUMANNIANUS	many ribs and with fine yellow spines. Large pure yellow flowers
2100 £2.45	NOTOCACTUS WARASII	dark green plants with yellow flowers
2121 £2.45	OPUNTIA ELATA	smooth rounded dark glossy green pads with very few, if any, spines. Orange-red flowers. We now think that this plant is OPUNTIA COCHENILLIFERA. Makes very good grafting stock. Sometimes purchased for feeding to tortoises!
2123.1 £2.75	OPUNTIA FICUS-INDICA	tall growing and vigorous, eventually tree like. Large orange-red or yellow flowers
2126.1 £2.45	OPUNTIA HORSTII	circular pads up to 7cm in diameter, bluish grey suffused violet towards the edges. Shrubby and low growing. Hardy in much of the UK.
2127.3 £2.45	OPUNTIA IMBRICATA	strongly-spined, tall, branching cylindrical stems up to 3m tall, with purple and yellow flowers. Hardy in the UK
2126 £2.75	OPUNTIA JAMAICENSIS	lightly spined oval pads. Easily produces its sulphur yellow 4cm diameter flowers. Sometimes used for tortoise food.
2139 £2.75	OPUNTIA PHAEACANTHA	bushy plants with oval pads. Hardy outside in GB on a well drained site. Yellow flowers
2160 £2.45	OPUNTIA SUBULATA	rapidly growing clustering columns, reaching a metre and more quickly. It makes a magnificent candelabrum if the top is cut off and the branches are allowed to sprout, will grow into a massive specimen if bedded into a glasshouse; red flowers. Will grow well in the garden or on a patio in summer.
2200.1 £2.45	PARODIA CHRYSACANTHION	very attractive, with yellow spines and yellow flowers
2226 £2.45	PARODIA SANGUINIFLORA	spiral ribs covered in fine, white, bristly spines. Large, bright red, glossy flowers
2227 £2.45	PARODIA SCHWEBSIANA	striking white spines, the central one curving and strong. Masses of wool in the crown. Large wine red flowers deepening to rust-red
2238.2 £2.45	PARODIA WEBERIANA	globular plants with grey spines, yellow, orange or red flowers
2239.1 £4.25	PEDIOCACTUS SIMPSONII	rare. Globular up to 15cm in diameter with short cream spines. 3cm long yellow or pink flowers. Hardy unprotected in many parts of the UK
2244 £2.95	PELECYPHORA VALDEZIANA	miniature rarity with hair-like feathery spines and violet-pink flowers
2266 £2.45	PSEUDOLOBIVIA (ECHINOPSIS) CARMINEOFLORA	impressive, large flowers coloured carmine and salmon
2268 £2.45	PSEUDOLOBIVIA (ECHINOPSIS) KERMESINA	huge carmine flowers!
2272 £2.45	PSEUDOLOBIVIA (ECHINOPSIS) OBREPANDA	massive white flowers up to 20 cm long and perfumed. Round plants up to 15cm across.
2292 £2.45	REBUTIA ALBIAREOLATA	free flowering with scarlet flowers
2296 £2.45	REBUTIA ALBIFLORA	nice miniature, clumping species with white flowers produced throughout the summer and autumn
2300.1 £2.45	REBUTIA BRUNESCENS	dark green clustering with numerous scarlet flowers
2312 £2.45	REBUTIA DONALDIANA	clustering species with brown spines and rich orange flowers.
2328 £2.45	REBUTIA FLAVISTYLA	startling bright orange flowers
2330 £2.45	REBUTIA FULVISETA	violet red flowers with a white throat
2343 £2.45	REBUTIA HOFFMANNII	this freely offsetting species has a dense covering of short white spines. Orange-salmon flowers
2344 £2.75	REBUTIA HELIOSA X REBUTIA ALBIFLORA	choice, clustering plants with peach and white flowers. Very attractive spines
2346 £2.45	REBUTIA ITHYACANTHA	this species is difficult to come by. Long spined with orange-red flowers
2346.1 £2.45	REBUTIA JUJUYANA	cream-spined and clumping; brilliant orange-red flowers
2349.2 £2.45	REBUTIA KRAINZIANA ALBIFLORA	like the species but with white flowers, and very thin, very short, snow-white spines set against the dark green body.
2351 £2.45	REBUTIA KUPPERIANA	clustering to form groups, and producing numerous deep scarlet flowers. Easy to grow and to flower.
2372 £2.45	REBUTIA MINISCULA	a clump forming plant that is one of the first to bloom each year. Lots of bright scarlet flowers. Easy to grow and flower.
2376 £2.45	REBUTIA MUSCULA	an outstanding species with dense white spines and bright orange flowers. Choice
2382 £2.45	REBUTIA PSEUDODEMINUTA	beautiful maroon flowers produced in large numbers. One of the later flowering rebutias.
2385.2 £2.45	REBUTIA PYGMAEA EOS	olive-green clumping plants with lots of dramatic, large pale-pink flowers
2400 £2.45	REBUTIA SENILIS SCHIELIANA	soft tight, white spined spheres with rings of many crimson flowers
2430 £2.45	REBUTIA XANTHOCARPA SALMONEA	covered in soft white spines, salmon-red flowers
2443 £2.45	SETICEREUS ICOSAGONUS	narrow offsetting bristly stems that quickly form groups. Scarlet tubular flowers around the top of the stem
2490 £3.00	SULCOREBUTIA ALBISSIMA	grey pectinate spines, plant colour varies from green to black, large glossy purple-red flowers.
2492 £3.00	SULCOREBUTIA ARENACEA	choice brownish purple plants with beautiful large yellowish orange flowers
2509.1 £3.00	SULCOREBUTIA KRUEGERI V HOFFMANNIANA	noteworthy for its spectacular flowers, which have magenta outer petals and yellow inner petals
2510.1 £3.00	SULCOREBUTIA LANGERI	covered in white, pectinate spines, clustering, with deep yellow flowers
2512 £3.00	SULCOREBUTIA MENESESII	choice; golden yellow flowers, curly spines
2513 £3.00	SULCOREBUTIA MENTOSA	shiny dark green stems producing numerous, rich purple flowers
2525 £3.00	SULCOREBUTIA VASQUEZIANA	blackish-green to violet-black body, weak, tangled golden-yellow to reddish spines, flowers magenta or red and yellow inside
2534 £2.45	THELOCACTUS BICOLOR	attractively coloured spines and large, deep pink flowers often produced a few times each year.
2552.1 £2.45	THELOCACTUS RINCONENSIS	solitary grey green or bluish green, white wool in crown, variable spine length and flowers white tinged with pink
2552.3 £2.75	TRICHOCEREUS BRIDGESSII	tall growing, dark green cylindrical stems. Huge, 18cm long white flowers. Rapid grower, can be used for grafting
2552.5 £2.75	TRICHOCEREUS FULVILANUS	greyish green fast growing columns that branch from the base. Large white flowers
2552.6 £2.75	TRICHOCEREUS TERSCHEKII	tall, stout branching columns eventually reaching 12m tall in habitat; large 20cm long white flowers
2553.6 £2.75	TRICHOCEREUS PACHANOI	bluish-green branching columns. Large white flowers with blackish hairs. One of the best stocks for grafting slower growing cacti
2549.4 £2.75	TRICHOCEREUS WERDERMANNIANUS	rapid growing ribbed columns, later branching, glossy and light green in colour and reaching 2m tall eventually. 12cm long white flowers
2578 £3.00	TURBINICARPUS PSEUDOMACROCHELE	bristly, flexible, interlacing spines, yellow at first but later grey. White flowers with pink mid-stripe.
2587 £2.45	WEINGARTIA PRUINOSA	masses of yellow flowers