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21. gesneriaceae (Phocagallery / gesneriaceae) Habitat: tropical and subtropical areas, particularly in the Caribbeans and other regions north of South America. Description: a family of dicotyledonous plants comprising one hundred genera or so; ... 22. 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 ... 23. 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 ... 24. 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 ... 25. 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 ... 26. 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 ... 27. 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. ... 28. myrtillocactus (Phocagallery / myrtillocactus) Habitat: high plateau region of central Mexico, Guatemala. Description: a group of branching, tree-like cacti with more or less prominent ribs that are difficult to get to flower in cultivation. The ... 29. 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 ... 30. 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 ... 31. 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 ... 32. 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 ... 33. oreocereus (Phocagallery / oreocereus) Habitat: distributed over a wide area: Andean ranges of Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile growing at heights of up to 3000 m (9800 ft). Description: these plants are typical of mountain cacti, having ... 34. pelecyphora (Phocagallery / pelecyphora) Habitat: Mexico. Description: a globular genus, growing in deserts, which has woolly areoles on the tubercles, pectinate spines that do not harm if touched and a large, fleshy root. In the spring, pink ... 35. pereskia (Phocagallery / pereskia) Habitat: tropical America. Description: a primitive genus of cactaceous plants forming shrubs with a prostrate or climbing habit; the leaves are oval and stalked, the areoles large with tufts of tough ... 36. rhipsalidopsis (Phocagallery / rhipsalidopsis) Habitat: tropical forests of Brazil. Description: an epiphytic, short-lived genus with many cultivars available. The flattened stems have undulate or dentate margins, small hairy areoles and flower profusely. ... 37. rhipsalis (Phocagallery / rhipsalis) Habitat: Central and South America, Asia, eastern and western Africa, Madagascar, Ceylon. Description: a wide genus of highly decorative plants comprising many different epiphytic, forest species. They ... 38. schlumbergera (Phocagallery / schlumbergera) Habitat: rainforests of Brazil. Description: epiphytic, non-parasitic, short day plants having flattened, jointed stems that tend to bifurcate. The commercially available plants are, for the most part, ... 39. selenicereus (Phocagallery / selenicereus) Habitat: tropical forests of Mexico, Central and South America. Description: a group of epiphytic plants having thin, flexuos runners with a cylindrical or angular section, developing ribs and aerial ... 40. stenocactus (Phocagallery / stenocactus) Habitat: sunny mountain ranges of Mexico. Description: small spherical cacti with a large number of wavy ribs, up to one hundred, small, short-tubed flowers. Soil: basic mix. Location: grow in filtered ...
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