Sorry about your plant Ian! its a job for C.S.I. ( cactus, succulent investigator's)

A young Pilosocereus.

A baby Ferrocactus.

Hi Sue this one looks like Echinocereus Subinermis.

Hi Lewis, it sounds like the growing point of the main plant has been damaged (hard to say without photo) and is continuing to grow by producing a little plantlet on top...

Thanks Ian and all, there might be one or two come home then. )

Are you/we able to bring plants back from the Canerys as hand luggage leagaly?? im hopefully going there next summer.

Hi Sue, they were trying to sell them for ?60. over here in N.I. , they were not rushing off the shelves needless to say. Now if they brought Ferro's in at the same size........I might have had to make a purchase

Hi Bob, if no one else local to you claims it ill give it a home...

Hi pete and all, its a shame they dont name them, i've quite a few new-dawn hybrids and you never know which ones which until they flower. It also makes it harder to purchase new/different ones. You would have to be in the nursery when the plants are flowering, and thats not usually possible for mos...