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habitat picture "rest of Pedio&Sclero",
click here.
Hardy cacti from high desert of USA
Pedio&Sclero are one of the group that adapts itself well to the severest environment
of all cacti. Their habitat are western dry region in US, Most of the area
is higher latitude as same as Japan. So they are living in cold climate
under -20c in winter as time. But on the other hands it has spell of dry
weather over 40c in summer. Therefore they live through the driest, coldest
and hotest condition. Because Sclero&Pedio have adapted such as a hard
environment, they are so delicate plants. Since they adapt the unuseal
environment, we need some techniques for cultivation and so they are called
"a hard character". I had trip their habitat and I am deep impressed
their appearance that they servive strongly at the too hard condition for
the existence of the plants. Then, as a result of knowledge about their
wildness, I have carved out the way of their cultivation as one might say
it's so difficult little by little.
mesae-verdae
nyensis
pubispinus
wrightiae
wetlandicus
(brevispinus)
polyancistrus
Sclerocactus
winkleri
papyracantha
(Toumeya)
sileri
peeblesianus
(Navajoa)
knowltonii
despainii
bradyi
Pediocactus
You can click the species name (under lined) of Sclero&Pedio and open
the images that are regulated by native colonies. And also you can find
some picture of Pedio&Sclero in cultivation, click here!