Oh dear, been to the garden centre...

[Victoria]

Took a break from putting up my other greenhouse to visit some garden centres and oh dear came back with some unlabelled plants (tut tut). Can anyone put names to them for me? First a couple of cacti

An impressively spined cactus I just couldn't resist, a cereus-type maybe?

[IMG]http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r298 ... nvicta.jpg[/IMG]

A Mammillaria, I was attracted to it's long tubercles.
[IMG]http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r298 ... tricha.jpg[/IMG]

[Victoria]

Two Haworthias, first was labelled 'Black Jam' but can't find any info on this name, is it correct? very pretty nevertheless.

[IMG]http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r298 ... tendua.jpg[/IMG]

And another, hybrid I expect and probably could be anything, but I like it.
[IMG]http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r298 ... siivar.jpg[/IMG]

Lastly an Aloe, labelled Aloe squarrosa, but looks a lot different to the pictures I found on Google.
[IMG]http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r298 ... e/Aloe.jpg[/IMG]

Thanks for any pointers!

[Vic]

First is Opuntia invicta Victoria, nice plant!

[Hob]

i pass on the first one (boy is that gonna be fun repotting)

second one looks a bit like Mammillaria decipiens ??

[Vic]

Second is Mammillaria camptotricha Victoria, another nice one!!

Should of said decipiens ssp. camptotricha which is it's properly recognised name.

[Vic]

Last one looks like it may be a Gasteraloe - Gasteria x Aloe but I'll leave it to the experts, succulents aren't really my field Victoria.

I'll leave the Haworthias to Bill as he's the resident expert, fair idea what they are.

All nice plants!!

[Victoria]

Oh goody-goody both of these were on my wish list, especially the Opuntia invicta, it threw me completely though as didn't realise it was so chunky, my other Tephros and Optunias are much more 'bitty'.

Thank you both for the IDs.

[Chris in Leeds]

Hi Victoria
looks like you got some nice plants the invicta is very nice and if they had more I would have bought a couple if it had being me mine is in a 2.5inch pot and still small compared to what yours looks like what size pot is it in? and was it a bargain if you dont mind me asking

[Phil_SK]

I'm immensely jealous of your Corynopuntia invicta - you don't see them very often even in specialist nurseries and they're always expensive.

[Victoria]

I would guess about 4in pot? will check in the morning. Needs a bigger one though, lots of roots coming out the bottom. Cost ?2.95 which seemed quite a lot of cacti for the money to me, but then again I'm very new to this.

There was one other which was not quite as big, wish I had bought it as well now!