and there is a pale yellow fluffy ball on a thin yellow stalk growing from the side of it. My first guess would be a seed pot. Has your Ferocactus been in bloom? Although the yellow seed pots would just sit on top of the plant instead of on the side, and on a thin stalk... Are you sure this yellow ...

A few of my cacti are showing what seems to be abnormal growth. This "growth" is always accompanied by a white substance, rather woolly, I have noticed the same with my Euphorbia horrida and Euphorbia schoenlandii, in the top. It accompanies my E. horrida when it is in bloom. It is not wo...

One of my Notocactus really has a strong scent. Not exactly sure what Notocactus it is (It could be Notocactus grossei), but if flowers all through the Summer (as most, I think), but really smells like those rose bushes. Easy to smell when you only pass by. But since the plant is about 40 centimeter...

Can you re-root the top part, or will it not shoot off any roots anymore?

Hmmmm, difficult one, is the rest of the plant in good shape? It may well die, but better to try and grow it on and hope its sends out some offsets, and start again with one of them. One of my larger Ferocactus of about 40 centimeters has a huge crater, about one quarter of it's mass. You can fit i...

The last photo, what is this plant? My first guess would be a Pseudolithos. It's White-sloanea crassa , a stapeliad from Somalia that's rarely been seen and collected in the wild, and what a superb specimen it is. I've never grown this myself so I don't know how tricky it really is. Thank you. I ha...

Not the best of photo's, but my Trichocaulon dinteri seems to be popular with the flies too.

Amazing to see the green has come back too. I would expect the dead tissue to remain dead, but new growth to still make it's way from the top pushing the dead tissue to the soil as years go buy.

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The last photo, what is this plant? My first guess would be a Pseudolithos.

Lindsey wrote: By the way... I see that your postal address is in Europe

Very adventurous to get plants from all the way from the continent, isn't it?