Family: Cactaceae
Habitat: This species grows only in a very small area on the border between Argentina and Bolivia, in the province of Jujui, at heights of 3700 meters above sea [...]
Family: Cactaceae
Habitat: Perù, Ecuador.
Cultivation: Exposure in full sun, well-draining substrate, watering regularly in Summer and rarely in Winter.
Browningia is one of the many cacti described and classified by the Britton & Rose botanists around 1920. They called Browningia in honor of W. E. Browning, director of the Inglés Institute in [...]
This genus contains a single species, M. spegazzinii, highly sought especially in monstrous and crested forms. According to some classifications, it should be part of the Cereus genus.
Its name comes from Carlos E. Porter, a Chilean entomologist. It is not considered an autonomous genus: it was first considered to be part of the Echinocactus, and is now included in the [...]