How to grow

Plant out early in spring in sandy or gravelly soil and give enough water to keep the soil lightly moist. Plants grow easily from seed in a sandy loam in flats, with part shade and with enough water to keep the soil slightly moist. Sow the seed preferably in May or June. The plants are not hurt by fifteen or twenty degrees of frost, and grow indoors or outside. This species grows best in sunny exposures.

Many Hooked Visnagita; Fishhook Cactus (Echinocactus polyancistrus—Sclerocactus polyancistrus)

(The name polyancistrus means “many fishhooks”)

How to identify and how it grows

The Many Hooked Visnagita, or Fishhook Cactus, grows from single stems as high as one foot, and four inches in diameter. The plant has from thirteen to seventeen ribs, on which twenty or more sharp needlelike radial spines appear, white, and a half-inch or so long. The central spines number six to ten, from one to five inches long, and are flattened with the lower thorns a brownish purple. All the spines are dangerously hooked and formidable, resembling a common fishhook. The flowers form in a central cluster and are about three inches in length and breadth, rose-purple changing to a beautiful rose-red. The petals are oblong; the pistils are a crimson shade. The fruit pods are covered with a few scales; they are bright rose-red. The flowers remain open for several days.

How to grow

Set plants in sandy or gravelly soil in sunny exposures, and give enough water to keep the soil moist. Sow the seed in June in sandy loam with enough water to keep the soil lightly moist, and give part shade. The plants grow indoors and out and will endure zero weather without injury. In colder weather they may be grown in dry sunny conservatories and indoor rock gardens.

Green Stemmed Visnaga (Echinocactus viridescens—Ferocactus viridescens)

(Viridescens means “growing green”)

How to identify and how it grows

The Green Stemmed Visnaga is another of the single growths, from five to fifteen inches high and a foot or so in diameter, and with thirteen to twenty ribs of glossy deep green or medium green, wavy-crested, and fringed with eight to twenty grouped radial spines about three-quarters of an inch long, very stout and sharp; these radials are slightly curved, with translucent yellow tips and reddish bodies. The four central spines are a dull gray-pink, sometimes yellowish. The flowers are about an inch and a half in length and breadth, form a circle around the tops of the stems, and are bell-shaped with yellow petals which have a reddish purple midrib. The reddish green fruit is less than an inch long and has a pleasant acid taste. This plant grows along the beaches and foothills of Southern California and blossoms in May and June.

How to grow

Transplant at almost any season in sandy or loamy soil, and give moderate irrigation to keep the soil well moistened. Plants grow readily from seed sown in flats in sandy loam, with part shade and with enough irrigation to keep the soil moist. They grow outside and indoors and are not injured by twenty degrees of frost; in colder climates they may be grown in conservatories or given protection out of doors.

Harem Cactus; Mound Cactus (Echinocactus polycephalus)

(Named polycephalus from the many heads or stems of the plant)

How to identify and how it grows

The Harem Cactus is so called because on the desert these plants grow in great clumps or colonies, one in the group much taller than all the others. These large clumps have forty or more stems in mounds five feet or so across, and from six to eighteen inches tall, with one or more large stems in the center of each mound. Some of these stems are as much as eight inches in diameter. On them appear twelve to eighteen ridges whose crests are sharp and waxy. The main body of the plant is almost hidden by its dense stout coat of spines, of which there are four to eight radials and four centrals. All thorns are cross-ridged and a grayish pink with occasional bands of a deeper color. The flowers form in a cluster in the center of the stem heads and are about two and one-half inches long. Each flower is composed of nearly one hundred petals and sepals, together, bright yellow and purple-red. These blossoms are partly hidden by the long sharp stout spines. The fruit is elliptical and covered with dense woolly creamy white hairs. This plant grows in stony or rocky soils with plenty of exposure.

How to grow

Set out plants early in spring in rocky or stony soil with sunny exposures, and give enough irrigation to keep the soil moist. Sow the seed in fine sandy loam in flats or pots in part shade, and water enough to keep the soil lightly moist. The plants grow indoors and out and are not injured by twenty degrees of frost; in colder weather they require protection.

Mexican Fruit Cactus (Echinocactus hamatacanthus—Echinocactus longihamatus)

(Named hamatacanthus from the hooked spines)

How to identify and how it grows

This species grows with solitary stems, only occasionally two to three together, a foot or so high, nearly a foot through and cylindrical. Along the stems run thirteen to seventeen quite prominent ribs covered with coarse tubercles, and a dozen or so two-inch radial spines and one to four central thorns, three to six inches long. These grooved spines are all crooked and twisted, also quite slender and brittle, sometimes breaking or splitting lengthwise. The radials are purplish, the centrals gray or tan. The flowers are three inches long, yellow tinged with tans and reds. The fruit is oblong, sweet, and edible. From it the dried sweetmeats are made.

How to grow

Transplant at any season, preferably in the spring, in sandy or gravelly clay loam in sunny exposures, with enough irrigation to keep the soil moist. The plants grow readily from seed sown in sandy loam in flats with part shade and watered sufficiently to keep the soil lightly moist. They grow inside and out and are uninjured by zero temperature, but with colder weather they should have protection.

Mexican Lime Cactus; Limos de Visnaga (Echinocactus Pringlei—Ferocactus Pringlei)

(Named in honor of C. G. Pringle, botanist and collector of southwestern plants)

How to identify and how it grows

The stems of this species grow singly or occasionally in clumps of a few. They are three to nine feet tall, something over a foot in diameter. Their ribs are quite prominent. The spines form in a marginal fringe of white bristlelike inch-long hairs that are bent and twisted, four to eight radials and four centrals, two inches long or less, cross-ridged and light red and yellow at their bases. The flowers encircle the tips of the stems in an orange-yellow cluster of twenty petals and sepals, each one an inch or so long and broad, and formed like a bell. The fruit is elliptical, orange or red, and is filled with a colorless limelike juice from which delicious lemonade is made; hence the common name, Lime Cactus. The plants thrive in the loamy soil of foothills and mountains in Central Mexico.

How to grow

Set out in spring in loamy soil or sandy loam in a sunny exposure with moderate irrigation. The seed may be sown in June in sandy loam, in flats in part shade and with enough irrigation to keep the soil moist. The plants thrive either out of doors or within and are not injured at twenty-five degrees below freezing; but with zero weather they require some protection.

Giant Visnaga (Echinocactus Visnaga)

(“Visnaga” is the Mexican name of the plant)

How to identify and how it grows

These are giant barrel plants, greenish monsters growing to nine feet in height, a single trunk often four feet through, cylindrical, the top broadly rounded with the center somewhat sunken. Along this stem run thirty to forty inch-high glossy green ribs with wavy crests, and a dense mass of long tan woolly areolas. There are four straight, stout, sharp one- or two-inch thorns with smooth surfaces, creamy yellow or translucent with brownish tips. The bright yellow flowers are quite narrow, a little less than three inches in length, and covered with a dense layer of cream-yellow hairs. These great plants grow singly on the highlands of San Luis Potosí, Central Mexico, and often attain an age of a thousand years and a weight of over five thousand pounds.

How to grow

This rare cactus grows very slowly. It thrives in sandy or gravelly clay loam with sunny exposures, and with occasional irrigation to moisten the soil during dry periods and during the growing season. The plants will grow out of doors or indoors and are not injured by a temperature twenty-five degrees below freezing; from zero weather they should be given protection.

Whipple’s Visnagita (Echinocactus Whipplei—Sclerocactus Whipplei)

(Named in honor of Lieutenant A. W. Whipple, in charge of the Whipple Expedition in 1853-1854, when this plant was discovered)

How to identify and how it grows

This little cactus grows only three to six inches tall, and about the same in diameter, singly or occasionally in clumps. It is generally to be seen growing in the protection of shrubs at about five thousand feet. The stem is lined with thirteen to fifteen prominent spiraled ribs, and seven to eleven white radial spines. There are also four black and white central thorns which turn red and finally ash-colored, and the lowest of these spines is sharply hooked. The flowers cluster at the top of the plant, bell-shaped blossoms purplish or rose-tinged, with a reddish style hairy its full length. The reddish fruit is oblong and has colorless scales, each of which bears a tuft of hairs in the axil.

How to grow

Transplant at almost any season but preferably in spring in clay loam or clay soil with part shade, and give enough water to keep the soil moist. Plants can be grown easily from seed sown in sandy loam in pots or flats with part shade, and watered enough to retain moisture in the soil. This Visnagita grows outdoors or inside and endures a temperature of twenty degrees below zero; hence it can be grown in cactus gardens throughout a large part of our country.

CHAPTER VIII
CONCLUSION

Finis cannot be written to any story which deals with the desert; for the desert call is a charm, it will etch away the heart of you until it brings you back; back to the long trek across burning arid wastes where you wondered first how any living thing could exist and where you found life and beauty and music, back to the giant amphitheater of the desert where the moonbeams flit about at night among the weird Fantastic Clan and the sun boils everything up by day, defying you then to tarry long. But you take the dare and come again if you can, and yet again, wending your way farther each time across the foothills and mountains, ever in search of that evanescent something called the desert-spell or the thing that calls you back.

In our domestic lives we work hard for the few little things we have; many homes are devoid of the animation and color and the thrill of flower creations; for to have the beauty of plants and blossoms is to work for them and then to keep them, by dint of much effort and labor of love. But how different it is on the desert! There the flowers just grow and blossom and keep on blooming without care or cultivation from the hand of man. It seems never to rain in that great natural amphitheater of the sun, but the plants Nature has placed there, so carelessly, we fancy, just bloom and thrive and bloom again. Yet there is no confusion in their placement and pattern; they are filigree and patchwork, scroll and lacework; they represent all that is beautiful and symmetrical in Nature’s handiwork in this realm of desert bloom.

Man comes and goes through life, dancing in and out of the Great Scheme, but he has missed much of the picture and the skein of life if he has not gone out to see the desert. For it is there on the broad high mesas of these vast arid stretches that life begins and ends; it is this desert land of plants and flowers, the great dry region of the earth, that haunts us, fascinates us, beckons us, allures us, just as it did the ancient pueblo and cave dweller, in ages long gone by.

We have finished our long trip into the mysterious realm of the Fantastic Clan, and we hope that you have gone with us in fancy along all the devious and rocky paths into the habitats of the cactus plants, and sensed something of their strange and matchless growth, and much of their beauty and charm. For you have not seen Life in all its many and varied forms till you have viewed at least once the wondrous parade of the brilliant cactus flowers, and surveyed the gorgeous painted canvas flung far out over the burning mesas on the Great American Desert. And remember, too, the words of the poet:

GLOSSARY OF TERMS

acute—ending in a point less than a right angle.

Adiós, señor—(Spanish) Good day, sir.

anther—the pollen-bearing body at the tip of the stamen.

areola—area or center of growth.

ascending—growing upward at an angle of forty or fifty degrees.

ascending spreading—growing at an angle of less than forty degrees.

awl-shaped—sharp-pointed from a broader base.

bajadas—mesalike mountain slopes.

Bisnaga—Barrel Cacti.

bract—a scale or small leaf.

Buenas noches—(Spanish) Good night.

bulbous—somewhat thickened or bulblike.

Cactaceæ—the botanical name for cacti or the cactus family of plants.

calyx tube—the tube formed by the union of the sepals.

candelabralike—with the branches growing somewhat regularly outward and upward.

central spines, or centrals—the inner spines of a spine cluster.

ciliate—with a fringe of hairs.

compressed—flattened on opposite sides.

constricted—contracted at regular intervals.

corona—a crownlike circle or whorl of flower parts.

creosote—a desert shrub.

cross-ridged—marked transversely.

deflexed—bent downwards.

dished—concave or sunken in the center.

divergent—spreading.

dwarf trees—plants smaller than trees but with a main trunk.

elliptical—oval or oblong with the ends rounded.

filaments—the threadlike stalks of stamens.

fissure—a furrow caused by the bark splitting.

fluted—grooved or channeled vertically.

Fuera—(Spanish) Begone, get you gone.

genera—plural of “genus.”

genus—a group or division of a family of plants.

glochidium (plural, glochidia)—a small fine needlelike body, a spicule.

mesa—a broad high table-land or plateau.

Mojave—a desert in Southern California.

obtuse—blunt or rounded at the tip.

persistent—remaining in place beyond the usual time.

petals—the inner circle of flower leaves, usually bright-colored.

prostrate—lying flat on the ground.

radial spines, or radials—the outer spines of a cluster.

recurved—curved outward and backward.

scale—a thin colorless body, usually a reduced bract.

scurfy—with small transparent scales on the surface.

sepals—the outer circle of flower leaves, green or colored.

shrub—a woody plant branching from the base.

spatulate—shaped like an old-fashioned spatula with the tip broadened and rounded.

spicule—a small fine needlelike body, also called a glochidium.

spine—a hardened and sharp-pointed modified branch or leaf, called also a thorn.

spinescent—tipped with a spine or sharp point.

stamen—the male bearing organ consisting of anther and filament.

stigma—the tip of the style on which the pollen is deposited.

style—the stalk joining the ovary and the stigma.

style branches—the divisions of the style bearing the stigmas.

translucent—partially transparent.

trek—usually a trip by wagon, used here to signify a trip by automobile, or simply a trip.

tubercles—knobby projections.

Visnaga—Barrel Cacti.

viable—capable of growth.

Visnagita—smaller plants of the Echinocactus Genus.

whorls—arrangement of plant parts in a circle around a stem.

PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY

Adiós, señor (ä dē ôs´ sān yôr´)

Aggregata (ä grā gä´tä)

Arizonica (ăr ĭ zōn´ĭ kä)

Acanthocarpa (ä kän thō kär´pä)

Acanthodes (ä kän´thō dēs)

Bajadas (bȧ hä´dȧs)

Basilaris (bäs ĭl ä´rĭs)

Bisnaga (bĭs nä´gȧ)

Bigelovii (bĭg ĕl ō´vē ē)

Blakeana (blāk ä´nä)

Buenas noches (bo͞o ā´nȧs nô´chās)

Bonkeræ (bŏn´kēr ī͜͡ē)

Cabecita del Viejo (kä vā cē´tȧ dĕl vē ā´hō)

Cactaceæ (kăk tā´cē ē)

Chlorotica (klō röt´ĭ kä)

Cereus (cē´rē ŭs)

Cholla (chōl´yȧ); commonly (choy´ȧ)

Coccineus (kŏk ĭn´nā üs)

Coryphantha (kôr ĭ fän´thä)

Covillei (kō vĭl´ē)

Deeringii (dēr ĭn´jĭ ē)

Deserti (dĕz ēr´tē)

Delicata (dĕl ĭ kä´tä)

Discata (dĭs kä´tä)

Echinocereus (ĕk ī nō cē´rē ŭs)

Echinocactus (ĕk ī nō căc´tŭs)

Emoryi (ĕm´ôr ē)

Engelmannii (ĕn gĕl män´ē ē)

Fasciculata (fä sĭk o͞o lä´tä)

Fendleri (fĕnd´lēr ē)

Fuera (fo͞o ā´rȧ)

Fulgida (fŭl´gĭ dä)

Genus (jē´nŭs)

Genera (jĕn´ēr ȧ)

Giganteus (jī găn tē´ŭs)

Gila (hē´lȧ)

Greggii (grĕg´gē ē)

Grahamii (grā´ȧm ē)

Hamatacanthus (häm ä tä kän´thüs)

Horizonthalonius (hôr ĭ zŏn thä lō nē üs)

Hystricina (hĭs trĭ cē´nä)

Johnsonii (jŏn´sŭn ē)

Junco Espinoso (hün´kō ās pē nō´sō)

Lævis (lī͜͡ē´vĭs)

Le Contei (lĕ kŏn´tē)

Leeanus (lē ä´nüs)

Leptocaulis (lĕp tō cau´lĭs)

Linguiformis (Lĭn gwĭ fôr´mĭs)

Mainæ (mān´ī͜͡ē)

MacDougalii (măk do͞o´gȧl ē)

Mammilla (măm mĭl´lȧ)

Mammillaria (măm mĭl lā´rē ȧ)

Macrocentra (mä krō cĕn´trä)

Mesa (mā´sȧ)

Mojave (mō hä´vā)

Mojavensis (mō hä vĕn´sēs)

Nogales (nō găl´ĕs)

Oliviæ (ō lĭv´ĭ ī͜͡ē)

Olla (ŏl´ȧ); commonly (ôy´ȧ)

Opuntia (ō pŭn´shĭ ȧ)

Papago (pä pȧ gō´)

Parryi (păr´rĭ ē)

Pima (pē´mȧ)

Pentagonus (pĕn tä gō´nüs)

Platopuntia (plăt ō pŭn´shĭ ȧ)

Polyacanthus (pŏl ĭ ä kän´thüs)

Polyancistrus (pŏl ĭ än cĭs´trüs)

Polycephalus (pŏl ĭ cĕf´ä lüs)

Pitahaya (pĭt ȧ hī´yȧ)

Pringlei (prĭn´gȧl ē)

Recurvata (rā ko͞or vä´tä)

Rigidissimus (rĭj ĭ dĭs´sĭ müs)

Robustispina (rō bŭs tĭs pē´nä)

Rosei (rōz´ē)

Rostii (rŏs´tĭ ē)

San Gorgonio (săn gôr gôn´ē ō)

San Bernardino (săn bēr när dē´nō)

Sahuaro (sȧ wah´rō)

San Luis Potosí (săn lü ēs´ pôt ō sē´)

Santa Monica (săn tȧ mŏn´ĭ kȧ)

Santa Rita (săn tȧ rē´tȧ)

Schottii (shŏt´ĭ ē)

Senilis (sĕn´ĭl ĭs)

Serpentinus (sĕr pĕn tē´nüs)

Sonora (sō nôr´ȧ)

Spinosior (spin ō´sĭ ôr)

Stanlyi (stăn´lĭ ē)

Tasajo (tȧ sä´hō)

Tetrancistera (tĕt rän cĭs tĕr´ä)

Tetracantha (tĕt rä kän´thä)

Thornberi (thôrn´bēr ē)

Thurberi (thŭr´bēr ē)

Toumeyi (to͞o´mē ē)

Tucson (to͞o sŏn´)

Versicolor (vēr sĭ´cȯl ôr)

Viridescens (vĭr ĭ dĕs´ĕns)

Viridiflora (vĭr ĭd ĭ flôr´ä)

Visnaga (vĭs nä´gȧ)

Visnagita (vĭs nȧ gē´tȧ)

Whipplei (whĭp´pȧl ē)

Wislizeni (wĭs lĭ zĕn´ē)

INDEX

[A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [T] [U] [V] [W] [X] [Y] [Z]

A

Areola, 30-31

Arizona Pincushion, 44, 59-60

B

Baby Cacti, 32-61

Barrel Cacti, 123, 154-84

Beaver Tail, 100, 115

Bent Spine Pincushion, 50-51

Bergorocactus Emoryi, 5

Bisnaga, 123, 154-84

Black Spined Pincushion, 45, 61

Brown Pincushion, 42, 55

Buckhorn Cholla, 127, 143-44

Bunny Cactus, 6, 21-22

Burning Cactus, 65

C

Cabecita del Viejo, 71, 83-85

Cacti

distribution of, 2, 27-28, 89

how to grow, 16-17

locations for cultivation of, 17

peculiarities of, 27-29, 35

spines and flowers of, 29-31

California Barrel Cactus, 162, 177-78

California Cholla, 126, 141-42

California Hedgehog Cactus, 65, 76

California Pincushion, 45, 60

Candy Barrel Cactus, 159, 173-74

Candy Cactus, 161

Cane Cacti, 120-52

Carnegiea gigantea, 9

Caterpillar Cactus, 2-3, 19

Cephalocereus senilis, 6

Cereus Genus, 1-26

Deeringii, 13

Emoryi, 5-6, 21

eruca, 2-3, 19

giganteus, 9-12, 24-25

Greggii, 12-15, 25-26

growth and habitats, 2

how to identify and how to grow, 17-18

pentagonus, 13

Schottii, 3-5, 20

senilis, 6-7, 21-22

serpentinus, 8-9, 18, 23-24

Thurberi, 7-8, 22-23

undatus, 13

Chirinola, 2-3, 19

Cholla, 89, 93

Common Pincushion Cactus, 41, 54

Compass Cactus, 159

Coryphantha Genus, 23, 34-37, 38-39, 44, 47-49, 50-52, 58-60

aggregata, 44, 58-59

arizonica, 44, 59-60

deserti, 36, 48-49

habitats, 46

how to identify and how to grow, 47-48

recurvata, 38, 50-51

robustispina, 39, 51-52

Cow’s Tongue, 96, 112

Cream Cactus, 37, 49-50

Cream Pincushion Cactus, 40, 53

Creeping Devil Cactus, 2, 19

Crimson Flowered Hedgehog Cactus, 65, 73, 86-87

Cursed Cholla, 137, 138, 150-51

Cylindropuntia, 120-52

D

Delicate Prickly Pear, 91-92, 108-109

Desert-Afire, 65, 76

Desert Christmas Cactus, 127, 128, 142-43

Desert Pincushion, 48-49

Desert Strawberry Cactus, 67, 70, 78, 82-83

Devil Cholla, 137, 138, 150-51

Devil’s Pincushion, 39, 51-52

Discus Prickly Pear, 97-99, 113

E

Echinocactus Genus, 154-84

acanthodes, 162, 177-78

Covillei, 157, 171-72

erectocentrus, 156, 170-71

growth and habitats, 154

hamatacanthus, 165, 181

horizonthalonius, 158, 172-73

how to identify and how to grow, 168-69

intertextus, 155, 169-70

Johnsonii, 161, 175-76

Le Contei, 160, 174-75

longihamatus, 181

polyancistrus, 163, 178

polycephalus, 164, 180

Pringlei, 165, 181-82

Rostii, 161, 176-77

viridescens, 164, 179

Visnaga, 166, 182-83

Whipplei, 167, 183-84

Wislizeni, 159, 173-74

Echinocereus Genus, 63-87

Bonkeræ, 71-73, 85

chrysocentrus, 65-66, 77-78

coccineus, 73, 86-87

Engelmannii, 66, 78-79

Fendleri, 69, 82-83

growth and habitats, 63-65

how to identify and how to grow, 74-76

Leeanus, 68, 80-81

mojavensis, 65, 76

polyacanthus, 67, 79-80

rigidissimus, 71, 83-85

Rosei, 68, 81-82

Echinomastus erectocentrus, 170-71

Engelmann’s Hedgehog Cactus, 66, 78

Engelmann’s Prickly Pear, 99, 113-14

Engelmann’s Strawberry Cactus, 67

F

Fendler’s Hedgehog Cactus, 69, 82-83

Ferocactus

acanthodes, 177-78

Covillei, 171-72

Johnsonii, 175-76

Le Contei, 161, 174-75

Pringlei, 181-82

Rostii, 176-77

viridescens, 179

Wislizeni, 159, 173-74

Fishhook Cactus, 159, 173-74, 178

Flapjack Prickly Pear, 103, 116-17

Foothill Prickly Pear, 95, 96, 111

Foxtail Cactus, 36-37, 48-49

G

Giant Cactus, 9-12, 24-25, 123

Giant Visnaga, 166, 182-83

Goddess of the Night, 13, 15

Golden Prickly Pear, 101-103, 116

Golden Spined Barrel Cactus, 129, 144-45, 161, 176-77

Golden Spined Strawberry Cactus, 65, 77-78

Green Flowered Pincushion, 43, 57-58

Green Stemmed Visnaga, 164, 179

H

Harem Cactus, 164, 180

Hedgehog Cactus, 5, 63-87, 123

Horned Toad Cactus, 42, 56

How to identify and how to grow,

Barrel Cacti, 168-69

Cereus Cacti, 17-18

Cholla Cacti, 140-41

Hedgehog or Strawberry Cacti, 74-76

Pincushion Cacti, 47-48

Prickly Pear Cacti, 106-107

I

Indian Strawberry Cactus, 66, 70, 78, 82-83

Interlacing Spine Cactus, 155, 169-70

J

Jumping Cholla, 136, 138, 149-50

Junco Espinoso, 8

L

Lemonade Cactus, 166

Lengua de Vaca, 96, 112

Limos de Visnaga, 181-82

Long Spined Prickly Pear, 100, 105, 114-15

Lophocereus Schottii, 3

M

Mammillaria Genus, 33, 34-36, 37, 40-44, 45-46, 47-48, 49-50, 52-58, 60-61

fasciculata, 40, 52

Grahamii, 41, 54

growth of, 34-36

habitats of, 46-47

how to identify and how to grow, 47-48

Johnstonii, 40, 53

MacDougalii, 37, 49-50

Mainæ, 42, 56

Milleri, 45, 61

Olivæ, 43, 57

tetrancistera, 45, 60

Thornberi, 40, 52

viridiflora, 43, 57-58

Wilcoxii, 41, 55

Many Colored Tree Cholla, 130-32, 135, 145-46

Many Hooked Visnagita, 163, 178

Mexican Fruit Cactus, 165, 181

Mexican Lime Cactus, 165, 181-82

Mexican Night Blooming Cereus, 8, 23-24

Mojave Hedgehog, 65, 76

Mound Cactus, 164, 180

N

Nigger Head, 159, 160-61, 174-75

Night Blooming Cereus, 12-15, 25-26

Nopals, 106

Nyctocereus serpentinus, 8

O

Old Man Cactus, 6-7, 21-22

Opuntia Genus (Cholla), 89, 93, 119-52

acanthocarpa, 127, 143-44

arbuscula, 128, 133, 147

Bigelovii, 129, 144-45

fulgida, 136, 138, 149-50

growth and habitats, 120-25

how to identify and how to grow, 140-41

leptocaulis, 127, 128, 142-43

Parryi, 126, 141-42

spinosior, 134, 148

Stanlyi, 137, 138, 150-51

tetracantha, 131, 132, 146

Thornberi, 133, 135, 148

versicolor, 130-32, 135, 145-46

Whipplei, 93, 137, 151-52

Opuntia Genus (Prickly Pears), 89-118

basilaris, 100, 115

Blakeana, 90-91, 107-108

chlorotica, 103, 116-17

Covillei, 101-103, 116

delicata, 91-92, 108-109

discata, 97-99, 113

Engelmannii, 99, 113-14

growth and habitat, 89-90, 120-21, 123-25

how to identify and how to grow, 106-107

hystricina, 104-106, 117-18

laevis, 94-95, 110

linguiformis, 96, 112

macrocentra, 100, 105, 114-15

santa rita, 92-94, 109-10

Toumeyi, 95-96, 111

P

Papago Fruit Cactus, 90-91, 107-108

Pincushion Cacti, 33, 34-61, 123

Pineapple Cactus, 51-52

Pink-Flowered Visnagita, 161, 175-76

Pipe Organ Cactus, 7-8, 22-23

Pitahaya, 7, 22-23

Pitahaya dulce, 8

Platopuntia, 106, 120

Popular Cholla, 131, 132, 146

Porcupine Prickly Pear, 104-106, 117-18

Prickly Pear Cacti, 89-118, 120-21, 124-25

Prohibition Cactus, 5-6, 21

Prolific Tree Cholla, 128, 133, 147

Purple Prickly Pear, 92-94, 109-10

Purple Spined Visnagita, 156, 170-71

Q

Queen of Night, 8, 14, 25-26

R

Rainbow Cactus, 70, 83-85

Recurved Spine Pincushion, 38, 50-51

Reina de Noche, 8, 14, 23-24, 25-26

Rhipsalis Genus, 27

Rose’s Hedgehog Cactus, 68, 81-82

S

Sage of the Desert, 10, 11, 24-25

Sahuaro, 9-12, 24-25

Salmon-Flowered Hedgehog Cactus, 68, 80-81

Schottii, 3-5, 20

Sclerocactus

polyancistrus, 178

Whipplei, 183-84

Senita, 3-5, 20

Serpent Cactus, 8-9, 18, 23-24

Short Spined Strawberry Cactus, 71-73, 85

Showy Pincushion, 44, 58-59

Sina, 3-5, 20

Slender Pincushion Cactus, 40, 52

Smooth Prickly Pear, 94-95, 110

Snowball Cactus, 43, 57

Spiny Hedgehog Cactus, 67

Spiny Tree Cholla, 134, 148

Strawberry Cacti, 63-87

Sunset Cactus, 41, 54

T

Tasajillo, 128, 142-43

Tasajo, 134, 148

Teddy Bear Cactus, 144-45

Thornber’s Cholla, 133, 135, 148

Traveler’s Compass, 158, 171-72

Traveler’s Friend, 157-58, 159, 171-72

Turk’s Head, 158, 172-73

V

Vela de Cojote, 137

Visnaga, 154-84

W

Whipple’s Cholla, 93, 137, 151-52

Whipple’s Visnagita, 167, 183-84

White Persian Cat Cactus, 6, 21-22

Z

Zina, 3-5, 20