In addition to being nearly overrun by Agaves, we do have a handful of cacti as well. Here are just a few. IDs are probably pretty shaky...
I'm particularly fond of clumping cacti such as Echinocereus and Mammillaria, and have in the past put some substantial effort into finding Mamms that could manage here. In my small experience, reports of Mammillaria tenderness are usually greatly exaggerated, and the challenge is finding those species that can tolerate our sun. It is difficult to try to find enough shade to help them out as we can with Agaves. Most don't like shade, they want full sun, as long as it isn't too intense. The most reliable strategy we've found is to purchase Mamms in the dead of summer, which are already out in full sun.
Echinocereus brandegeei
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Echinocereus
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Stenocereus eruca
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Oreocereus celsianus
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Echinocereus stramineus
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Grusonia invicta
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Cumulopuntia sphaerica
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Echinocereus
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Echinopsis terscheckii
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Echinocereus engelmannii
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Echinocactus grusonii
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Ferocactus eastwoodiae / Echinocereus bonkerae
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Echinocereus
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Opuntia microdasys
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Ferocactus glaucescens
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Mammillaria polythele ssp. obconella
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Agave
"American aloe plant," 1797, from Greek Agaue, proper name in mythology (mother of Pentheus), from agauos "noble," perhaps from agasthai "wonder at".
"Some talk the talk, others walk the walk, but I stalk the stalk"
Agave
"American aloe plant," 1797, from Greek Agaue, proper name in mythology (mother of Pentheus), from agauos "noble," perhaps from agasthai "wonder at".
"Some talk the talk, others walk the walk, but I stalk the stalk"
^ Eaten by Harris ground squirrels. I had a nice little clump in the ground for a spell, and they ignored it until it flowered. I swear, those things have so much wool they could be dead for two years and you might not notice.
Agave
"American aloe plant," 1797, from Greek Agaue, proper name in mythology (mother of Pentheus), from agauos "noble," perhaps from agasthai "wonder at".
"Some talk the talk, others walk the walk, but I stalk the stalk"
Agave
"American aloe plant," 1797, from Greek Agaue, proper name in mythology (mother of Pentheus), from agauos "noble," perhaps from agasthai "wonder at".
"Some talk the talk, others walk the walk, but I stalk the stalk"
Ron, are you certain of the ID of that last Ferocactus as latispinus?
I am pretty certain F. latispinus does not have the bristly radial spines, and the main central spine tends to be wider and less hooked. Has it ever flowered? F. latispinus flowers are pretty distinctive.
To me that cactus looks like F. wislizeni subsp. herrerae - following Pilbeam's book on Ferocacti - which I would classify as a tentative alternative ID.
Good catch, they definitely seem different. I am certain of nothing. Come to think of it, my other one is budding up now, but not this. Aren't the ribs awfully deep for F. wislizeni?
Ferocactus latispinus
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Agave
"American aloe plant," 1797, from Greek Agaue, proper name in mythology (mother of Pentheus), from agauos "noble," perhaps from agasthai "wonder at".
"Some talk the talk, others walk the walk, but I stalk the stalk"
Regarding the ribs: Not for a youngish one. See my F. wislizeni subsp. wislizeni a few years ago:
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I have just never seen a F. latispinus with those bristly radial spines - even in a sun starved one the radial spines are straight, strong and pointy.
Here is the same plant from last September with a few flower buds that I never caught/never developed you can see it is growing out of the deep ribs... (and it had gotten some good rain as well...)
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And my suggestion of F. wislizeni subsp. herrerae is a guess, as there are other Ferocacti with the bristly radial spines, reddish central spines with the main one of those hooked - the Pilbeam's Ferocactus book just opened up on a picture of F. wislizeni subsp. herrerae and it looks very similar to your plant.
Hmmm, I do believe I was hornswoggled, my ID simply reflects the plant label....
Well, it looks big enough to flower this year, so we'll see if we get some big bright orange (or yellow) blooms...
Agave
"American aloe plant," 1797, from Greek Agaue, proper name in mythology (mother of Pentheus), from agauos "noble," perhaps from agasthai "wonder at".
"Some talk the talk, others walk the walk, but I stalk the stalk"
Couple bloomers... Both are out in full sunup-sundown sun.
Mammillaria standleyi
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Mammillaria supertexta
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Agave
"American aloe plant," 1797, from Greek Agaue, proper name in mythology (mother of Pentheus), from agauos "noble," perhaps from agasthai "wonder at".
"Some talk the talk, others walk the walk, but I stalk the stalk"
Are any of your cacti cold hardy? Tomorrow the morning temp will be 9F.
Mckinney, Texas. 30 Miles North of Dallas. What I'm trying to grow: A ovatifolia: whales tongue, frosty blue, vanzie, sharkskin, parrasana, montana, parryi JC Raulston, Bellville, Bluebell Giant, havardiana, polianthiflora, parviflora, havardiana x neomexicana
Nope. Not a single one. I'm sure I'd have a few plants that would survive such an extreme, but probably not many.
Agave
"American aloe plant," 1797, from Greek Agaue, proper name in mythology (mother of Pentheus), from agauos "noble," perhaps from agasthai "wonder at".
"Some talk the talk, others walk the walk, but I stalk the stalk"
