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Botanischer Garten Jena

Several years later, additional purchases included amaryllis, cacti, succulent Euphorbia, Pelargonium, and Zantedeschia.

Cereus

The term cereus is used to describe cacti with very elongated bodies, including columnar growth cacti and epiphytic cacti.

Desert pocket mouse

These pocket mice live in soils that may be vegetated with creosote bush, palo verde, burroweed, mesquite, cholla and other cacti, and short, sparse grass, as well as in lower edges of alluvial fan with yucca, mesquite, grama, and prickle poppy.

Didymium wildpretii

wildpretii is known to grow on species of the globose cacti Echinocactus platyacanthus, Mammillaria carnea and Ferocactus latispinus; the opuntioid cacti Opuntia depressa, O. maxima, O. pilifera and O. tomentosa) and the columnar cacti (Myrtillocactus geometrizans, Pachycereus hollianus, P. weberi, Stenocereus and Neobuxbaumia.

Duffy's Peak

The soils of the area are moderately deep silt loams that support mesquite, yucca, cacti, and grasses.

Emory Peak

High-desert flora and fauna including alligator juniper (Juniperus deppeana), pinyon pine (Pinus cembroides), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), prickly pear cacti (Opuntia spp.), Mexican Jay (Aphelocoma wollweberi), sotol (Dasylirion leiophyllum), and Texas madrone (Arbutus xalapensis) may be seen along the trail.

Friesia

Parodia, a genus of the Cactaceae family of cacti (synonym by authority: Fric (nom. inval.))

Graham Dury

Having previously worked engineering cacti at the University of Leicester, Dury was the first cartoonist to be offered a full-time job at Viz by co-creator Chris Donald in April 1988, when royalties began to make the magazine a profitable business.

Haim Aharon Valero

Even within the walls, a third of the city was a wasteland, covered in thickets of prickly pear cacti.

Hedgehog cactus

Echinopsis, a large genus of cacti native to South America containing 128 species

Echinocereus, a genus of ribbed, usually small to medium-sized cylindrical cacti, comprising about 70 species from the southern United States and Mexico in very sunny rocky places

Hylocereus undatus

There is a locally famous cacti hedge on a lava rock wall of the Punahou School in Honolulu, the hedge of Kapunahou.

Living Desert Zoo and Gardens State Park

The gardens feature a greenhouse and hundreds of cacti and succulents from around the world, including acacia, agave, small barrel cactus, cholla, ocotillo, prickly pear, saguaro, sotol (Dasylirion wheeleri), and yucca.

Moccasin

The Plains Indians wore hard-sole moccasins, given that their territorial geography featured rock and cacti.

Moorten Botanical Garden and Cactarium

"Cactarium" greenhouse collections include: cacti and succulents, with caudiciform species exhibiting thickened root crowns, many species of Asclepiads, Aztecia, Gymnocalycium, Alstromeria, Euphorbia, and Ferocactus, plus two fine examples of Welwitschia mirabilis from Namibian deserts.

Nothrotheriops

Nothrotheriops behaved like all typical ground sloths of North and South America, feeding on various plants like the desert globemallow, cacti, and yucca.

Orchid cactus

Epiphyllum hybrid, one of a number of hybrid cacti formed by crosses between Disocactus, Pseudorhipsalis, Selenicereus and Epiphyllum; often collectively called "epiphyllums" or "epis"

Parodia leninghausii

a native of North Rhine-Westphalia who, in the 1880s, left his hometown of Ennepetal and emigrated to Porto Alegre, Brazil, where he became Guillermo Lenninghaus, and collected cacti for the German grower Haage.

Plant morphology

The growth form of many cacti and species of Euphorbia is very similar, even though they belong to widely distant families.

Prickly pear

Opuntia, a genus of cacti producing a fruit known as the prickly pear

Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden

Some of them are open to the public (guided visits only), including the large collections of azaleas and other Ericaceae (No. 6), ferns (No. 15), cacti and other succulents (No. 16), various tropical plants (No. 18), the 23.5 m high Big Palm Greenhouse with an important collection of orchids (No. 26) and the greenhouse with a pond containing Victoria amazonica (no. 28).

Sclerocactus glaucus

The description of this species formerly included plants now belonging to Sclerocactus brevispinus and Sclerocactus wetlandicus, two cacti endemic to Utah.

Soft rot

Pichia heedii, the soft rot of the cacti Lophocereus schottii and Drosophila pachea

Spruce Woods Provincial Park

The sandhills are home to many unique plants and animals; including some cacti and hognose snakes.

Whipple Mountains Wilderness

The dominant vegetation-type is commonly referred to creosote bush scrub, with palo verde, desert Ironwood, smoketree, and numerous species of cacti including cholla, saguaro, foxtail, and prickly pear.

White-toothed woodrat

Almost invariably, cacti, especially cholla and prickly pear (Opuntia), are present.


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