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1. agavaceae-nolinaceae (Phocagallery / agavaceae-nolinaceae) Habitat: tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas, particularly Mexico, the West Indies, Central America, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia; the Mediterranean. Description: a family ... 2. ancistrocactus (Phocagallery / ancistrocactus) Habitat: Mexico, Texas. Description: globular, sometimes upright cylindrical, cacti with big areoles each of them bearing a central hooked spine; they may develop a taproot. The diurnal flowers are borne ... 3. asclepiadaceae (Phocagallery / asclepiadaceae) Tribes: PERIPLOCEAE, CYNANCHEAE, MARSDENIEA, CEROPEGIEAE, STAPELIEAE. Habitat: they occur in a wide range of climates, from temperate to subtropical or tropical regions and even deserts; semi-arid regions ... 4. asteraceae (compositae) (Phocagallery / asteraceae) Habitat: the succulent species occur in South Africa, the Canary Islands, South Arabia, India, Madagascar. Description: the family includes dicotyledonous plants that may store water in the leaves, ... 5. astrophytum (Phocagallery / astrophytum) Habitat: Mexico, Texas. Description: cacti with globular but more often columnar stems which may have four to eight ribs (up to ten as the plants grow older) and be covered with a variable number of ... 6. bromeliaceae (Phocagallery / bromeliaceae) Habitat: subtropical and tropical America. Description: a family of monocotyledonous, mostly herbaceous plants; some genera are epiphytic. They have a short stem and leaves arranged in a rosette. The ... 7. crassulaceae (Phocagallery / crassulaceae) Subfamilies: CRASSULOIDEAE, SEDOIDEAE, COTYLEDONOIDEAE, KALANCHOIDEAE, ECHEVERIOIDEAE, SEMPERVIVOIDEAE. According to some botanists only two of them are to be considered subfamilies:the Crassuloideae and ... 8. cryptocereus (Phocagallery / cryptocereus) Habitat: Mexico. Description: a genus of cacti with flat, leaf-like, deeply incised stems bearing showy, very fragrant, nocturnal, yellowish flowers, red on the outside. It is now within the genus Selenicereus. ... 9. disocactus (Phocagallery / disocactus) Habitat: Jamaica, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico. Description: a genus of epiphytic forest cacti, found especially in jungles, with flattened, crenate-margined stems, initially upright then drooping, and ... 10. 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 ... 11. escobaria (Phocagallery / escobaria) Habitat: desert regions of southwestern Texas and southern New Mexico. Description: the genus comprises mainly globular cacti with a clumping habit, with vertically furrowed tubercles like Coryphantha. ... 12. 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. ... 13. 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 ... 14. 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 ... 15. 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 ... 16. 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. ... 17. 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. ... 18. 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 ... 19. ortegocactus (Phocagallery / ortegocactus) Habitat: Mexico (Oaxaca State), growing in the crevices of dark volcanic rocks at approximately 2500 m (8200 ft) of altitude. Description: a genus of small, globular cacti having a greenish-gray epidermis ... 20. passifloraceae (Phocagallery / passifloraceae) Habitat: Kenia, Namibia, Asia. Description: a group of woody, evergreen, floriferous vines. The leaves are alternate, sometimes lobed. The fruit is a berry. They may have a spiny caudex. Soil: basic ...
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