Da Roberto

This is gorgeous ( mamillaria luethyi) I had it for three years but then I lost it.... VERY delicate, but I want to try again..... The last two are the same plant but the first is variegated (yellow... very delicate, in fact it is grafted on more resistant cactus) and the second is "monstrous"..... SUPER delicate And.... it doesn't sting at all! Sorry, the last two are reversed....

The first (orange flowers), the fourth yellow, the fifth and the sixth as well as the last, can be easily touched without gloves

Hi Chad, yes in spring and (generally) early summer, they make a blast of very beautiful flowers

Agree

Yes, I own it too, nice photos, but as Ann says, this title / term I do not approve much .....

"END OF DAY" I associate it more than anything else with the cloudy ones instead of onionskin, made with last pieces of the barrel or pieces of glass precisely at the end of the day, although in some books they attribute this definition to both

Jabo

Onionskin for me

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Akro

Good Tommy specimens. For the moment I do not own those with wool "old man's head"..... in Italian ( Cephalocereus senilis) but I will buy them. I see that you have some variegated, (yellow, since they are free of chlorophyll) rather delicate to grow, especially frank, usually they sell them grafted. I have one similar to your first, I think it is from the family "Echinocactus" long plug, while mine has white thorns Correct, yours must be a sferocactus with those pinkish spines, but always long-plug

The one on the left looks like MK

Akro

X2

Tommy 👍

Hi Chad,.... yes, my other passion!

It looks a bit like a European sparkler, but with that seam it sounds a little weird

It could be Heaton's "honey cookie", indeed, for me it is...

Thanks Anna!

With this staining and cutting, I go with the vitro

I have owned the last one for twenty years, when I bought it it was small

Yes, there are many cacti that you can safely touch even without gloves since, either they are without thorns (not all cacti have them) or they are small and curved, therefore harmless, or they can have large and pointed thorns but if touched gently they do not cause any damage. Sometimes, I like to touch their thorns with my whole hand (gently, of course) to feel their protection. The only plants that I never touch are the prickly pear, since (as I mentioned in the thread above) they have very small and tiny transparent thorns called "glochids" that if they come into contact with the skin they can hardly be removed, even with tweezers! In fact, I don't grow prickly pear very much, precisely for this reason. Anyway, for all the other cacti there is absolutely no problem, since I keep pointed tweezers (needle, professional steel) so that if they accidentally get into the skin of my hand, I can easily remove them using a glasses lens,.... it's all about being prepared.

Yes, I'm more for Heaton

It has some cac characteristics, but it does not fully convince me .... nice though