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21. euphorbiaceae (Phocagallery / euphorbiaceae) Habitat: the family is distributed across warm temperate, subtropical and tropical areas occurring in Central and Austral Africa, Madagascar, the Canary Islands, Ethiopia, Zambia, with a few species growing ... 22. ferocactus (Phocagallery / ferocactus) Habitat: deserts of Mexico and southwestern United States: Texas, Arizona, California, New Mexico. Description: a genus of plants variable in size, with robust, often hooked and sometimes colourful spines. ... 23. geraniaceae (Phocagallery / geraniaceae) Habitat: nearly all the species are from South Africa. Description: a family of dicotyledonous, herbaceous plants. The leaves are normally opposite, palmate-veined, sometimes covered in soft hairs. ... 24. hatiora (Phocagallery / hatiora) Habitat: Central and South America, with a higher concentration in the rainforests of Brazil. Description: the genus comprises some epiphytic species with drooping habit that flower in late winter. It ... 25. heliocereus (Phocagallery / heliocereus) Habitat: Guatemala, Mexico. Description: cacti with slender, branched, sometimes dentate stems, that may produce flexuous runners. They flower reliably once reached maturity. The funnel-shaped, large, ... 26. hylocereus (Phocagallery / hylocereus) Habitat: Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, the Antilles, and some northern regions of South America. The genus is spread over tropical areas with a humid, jungle-like climate. Description: a genus of forest ... 27. islaya (Phocagallery / islaya) Habitat: foggy coastal deserts of Peru and Chile where it hardly ever rains and rocky areas up to 1000 metres (3300 ft). Description: a group of cacti with a green, solitary, spherical or cylindrical ... 28. lobivia (Phocagallery / lobivia) Habitat: South America: Bolivia, Peru, Argentina. Description: a genus of small clumping globular plants, naturally growing in mountainous regions. In the summer, large, funnel-shaped flowers are borne ... 29. mammillaria (Phocagallery / mammillaria) Habitat: Mexico, south-west of the United States, South America, West Indies. Description: a genus of small, globular or cylindrical plants, from whose axils tiny, crown-shaped flowers arise; they may ... 30. matucana (Phocagallery / matucana) Habitat: Peruvian Andes. Description: a group of globular or columnar cacti with spines of variable length and colour and long-tubed flowers in the summer, followed by small green fruits. They once were ... 31. monvillea (Phocagallery / monvillea) Habitat: Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Brazil, Peru. Description: a genus of clumping cacti whose slender stems are up to 2 metres (6.5 ft) long with more or less rounded ribs (up to nine) bearing ... 32. neobuxbaumia (Phocagallery / neobuxbaumia) Habitat: Mexico. Description: the genus comprises columnar, sometimes branching cacti. Flowers arise from areoles near the top or along the side. According to Hunt it is synonymous with Cephalocereus. ... 33. neolloydia (Phocagallery / neolloydia) Habitat: wildernesses of southern Texas and Chihuahua desert (north-east of Mexico), from 700 to 2400 metres (2300-7900 ft) of altitude. Description: small, globular plants that tend to become cylindrical ... 34. neoporteria (Phocagallery / neoporteria) Habitat: southern Peru, Argentinean and Chilean Andes. Description: a genus of small globular cacti living at great elevations on the Andean ranges; the large, often bicoloured flowers are borne near ... 35. neoraimondia (Phocagallery / neoraimondia) Habitat: desert regions of Peruvian mountains. Description: a genus of cespitose, columnar cacti branching from the base. The diurnal, pink or purple flowers consist of a large tube holding the corolla. ... 36. nopalxochia (Phocagallery / nopalxochia) Habitat: Mexico, Costa Rica. Description: a group of plants resembling Epiphyllum that produce funnel-shaped, pink or red flowers. They are epiphytes and some are native to rainforests; the flattened ... 37. notocactus (Phocagallery / notocactus) Habitat: prairies of Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina. Description: cacti with a globular or cylindrical stem that produce yellow, quite large flowers from the centre of the apex or just below it. Spines may ... 38. nyctocereus (Phocagallery / nyctocereus) Habitat: Mexico. Description: a creeping genus with large, white, nocturnal flowers. It is now part of Peniocereus. Soil: basic mix. Location: grow in dappled light. Temperature: minimum temperature ... 39. obregonia (Phocagallery / obregonia) Habitat: northwestern Mexico. Description: the genus is related to Ariocarpus and Strombocactus; the plants have a big taproot, large triangular, rosette-like tubercles with areoles on their tip. The ... 40. opuntia (Phocagallery / opuntia) Habitat: the genus is widespread across America, from sea level to 3000 metres (9800 ft). Description: these plants are variable in size and develop braches with flat, cylindrical or globular ribless ...
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