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21. cucurbitaceae (Phocagallery / cucurbitaceae) Habitat: Europe, America, South Africa. Description: a family of herbaceous plants or prostrate little shrubs, often climbing by means of tendrils. The stem and leaves are usually rough and covered ... 22. didiereaceae (Phocagallery / didiereaceae) Habitat: Madagascar. Description: the family includes spiny shrubs or trees with succulent stems, fleshy small leaves and flowers arranged in inflorescences. Soil: basic mix. Location: choose a bright ... 23. dioscoreaceae (Phocagallery / dioscoreaceae) Habitat: Central America, South Africa. Description: monocotyledonous plants similar to Liliaceae; They have a globular or elongated rhizome from which thin, climbing stems arise, bearing alternate leaves. ... 24. echinocereus (Phocagallery / echinocereus) Habitat: Mexico, western United States. Description: the plants grouped in this genus occupy very different habitats: from sea level to elevations of approximately 3000 metres (9800 ft). Some show an ... 25. echinomastus (Phocagallery / echinomastus) Habitat: Mexico, United States. Description: a genus of globular or cylindrical cacti with felty areoles bearing numerous spines. The funnel-shaped flowers may be from purple to red or pink but they’re ... 26. echinopsis (Phocagallery / echinopsis) Habitat: Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay. Description: globular, cylindrical when older, half-hardy cacti with spiny ribs. Some grow in semi-desert regions sheltered by tufts of grasses, others ... 27. epiphyllum (Phocagallery / epiphyllum) Habitat: mainly plants of garden origin. There are hundreds of hybrids obtained by crossing Epiphyllum with Selenicereus, Echinopsis and so on. Description: these plants, growing as epiphytes in the ... 28. eriosyce (Phocagallery / eriosyce) Habitat: deserts of Peru and Chile. Description: these spherical cacti have approximately forty ribs with tough spines. Pink or purplish pink flowers appear once the plant has reached maturity, that ... 29. 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 ... 30. 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. ... 31. gymnocalycium (Phocagallery / gymnocalycium) Habitat: South America: Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, southern Brazil, Bolivia, found from sea level to 1000 m (3300 ft) of altitude. Description: a genus of small, globular or short cylindrical cacti ... 32. harrisia (Phocagallery / harrisia) Habitat: Cuba, Argentina, Jamaica, Florida. Description: sprawling or creeping night-flowering plants with large, long-tubed blooms in the summer, followed by scaly fruits. They are now within the genus ... 33. 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 ... 34. 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, ... 35. 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 ... 36. machareocereus (Phocagallery / machareocereus) Habitat: Mexico, southern United States, Central America, Peru. Description: a group of upright or sprawling cacti with basal branching; they spread by means of runner-like stems with an ascending tip. ... 37. 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 ... 38. melocactus (Phocagallery / melocactus) Habitat: West Indies, Brazil, Cuba, Peru, Mexico. In their native countries they can be also found growing on the seashore. Description: globular cacti with straight ribs and very variable in spination. ... 39. 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 ... 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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