Exotic Cactus

Cactus are slow growing plant with simple care - even it needs sunny position and should be well drained, it will also tolerate quite cold condition in winter.

Being easy care with colorful flowers that last quite long, has made cactus as one of a favorite plant gifts. For mean of exclusive gift, you can choose rare cactus, which usually have unique shapes and uncommon performance. Some genus of rare cactus will even remind us of primval plants.

Some popular cactus with exotic flowers are :

• Christmas Cactus ( Schlumbergera or Zygocactus ), blooms at Christmas time if cared properly.


• Lobivia, short growing cold tolerant with various bright colored flowers.


• Echinocereus, vefry popular cactus from USA and Southern Mexico


• Mammillarias, cactus with extremelly beautiful flowers.


• Matucanna

Cactus is ideally sent to someone who loves plants. A cactus can be placed everywhere in our home as it does not request lot of sunlight or water. Add a cactus book when sending cactus is a good idea, so it will help the receiver taking proper care of the plant.