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  2. Moorten Botanical Garden and Cactarium - Wikipedia

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    The Moorten residence was named the Cactus Castle, and was originally built in Mediterranean style by photographer Stephen H. Willard (1894–1966). [3] The Moortens collected many of their own specimen plants from Baja California , mainland Mexico, and as far south as Guatemala.

  3. Ruth Bancroft Garden - Wikipedia

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    The Garden began in the early 1950s as Ruth Bancroft's private collection of potted plants within Bancroft Farm, a 400-acre (160 ha) property bought by publisher Hubert Howe Bancroft (grandfather of Ruth's husband Philip) in the 1880s as an orchard for pears and walnuts.

  4. 12 beautiful plants and flowers to enjoy in Southern ...

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    It was SoCal nurseryman Paul Ecke Sr. who took a little-known, spindly outdoor plant from Central America in the early 1920s and bred it into a hardy potted plant "whose tapering red leaves have ...

  5. List of edible cacti - Wikipedia

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    This is a list [1] of edible plants in the family Cactaceae. Acanthocereus tetragonus, the sword pear, Browningia candelaris, [2] Carnegiea gigantea, the Saguaro, Cereus repandus - California and Florida; genus Corryocactus (also known as Erdisia), the tasty berrylike C. brevistylis, C. pulquiensis, and C. erectus; Coryphantha. C. robbinsorum ...

  6. Ferocactus viridescens - Wikipedia

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    Ferocactus viridescens is a solitary barrel cactus, typically spherical, oblate, or nearly cylindrical, reaching heights of 10-30(-45)cm and diameters of 10-20(-35)cm.It has bright green flesh arranged into several 13 to 34 blunt ribs covered in arrays of long spines.

  7. Fouquieria splendens - Wikipedia

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    Fouquieria splendens (commonly known as ocotillo / ɒ k ə ˈ t iː j oʊ / (Latin American Spanish:), but also referred to as buggywhip, coachwhip, candlewood, slimwood, desert coral, Jacob's staff, Jacob cactus, and vine cactus) is a plant indigenous to the Mojave Desert, Sonoran Desert, Chihuahuan Desert and Colorado Desert in the Southwestern United States (southern California, southern ...

  8. Huntington Desert Garden - Wikipedia

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    Most desert columnar plants belong to the genus Cereus. They form the structure of much of the Desert Garden landscape, producing flowers in late summer and colorful fruit in September and October. Cereus xanthocarpus, at twenty tons, is the garden's most massive plant. This tree-like cactus was already a mature specimen when planted in 1905.

  9. Stenocereus thurberi - Wikipedia

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    Stenocereus thurberi, the organ pipe cactus, [3] is a species of cactus native to Mexico and the United States. The species is found in rocky desert. Two subspecies are recognized based on their distribution and height. The Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is named for the species. Cacti are minimally adapted to particular thermal niches ...