Random cacti

in hive-183841 •  last year 

Spring is coming and buds are forming: here are a few from last season

Gymnocalycium

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Parodia hybrid

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Parodia

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I love the tiny cacti with huge flowers like Parodia and Gymnocalycium, what kind of flowers do the Parodia cross have?

They are quite similar to the pure Parodia below but somehow larger and more lush. Parodia are difficult to handle though, they have very sharp spines

Gymnocalycium are a pleasure to handle in comparison

I like Astrophytum even more

Parodia and similar are the reason why I don't like cacti much

Welding gloves and similar help a lot although it is a pain to weed the pots

Even worse, the barrel cacti and those with hooks, they get caught in the gloves

True, ferocacti are bad although dyckia and other Bromeliad families are close