Best Flowering Cacti

BEST FLOWERING CACTI

Large Cacti

• Cereus peruvianus and Cereus monstrosus: very large white flowers summer through fall
• Trichocereus pachanoi: large white flowers
• Trichocereus terscheckii: large white flowers

Medium Cacti

• Trichocereus x multi colors
• Opuntia basilaris (beavertail): 3” pink flowers
• Echinocereus rigidissimus (Arizona rainbow cactus): colored spines, yellow flowers with red stripes
• Peniocereus greggii (Queen of the Night): white flowers, mid summer

Small Cacti

• Echinocereus triglochidiatus (claret cup): orange-red
• Echinocereus engelmanni (strawberry hedgehog): lavender flowers with red fruits
• Echinocereus (bonkers hedgehog): lavender flowers
• Mammillaria (all): mostly pink flowers

Groundcover Cacti

• Chamaecereus (peanut cactus): red to orange flowers
• Aporocactus (rat tail cactus): pink to red flowers
• Mammillaria dealbata: pink flowers