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Houseplants - Cactus - Can anyone identify?

DaveKearleyDaveKearley Posts: 130
in Plants
Hi all, 

I have these two small plants, but no idea of what they are and thus no idea how to care for them :)

Can anyone help by identifying please?

For scale - the pots measure 9cm round.

Many thanks.


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  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    edited February 2023
    @DaveKearley I think the first one is known as a Barrel Cacti or Echinocactus.
    Second could be a Haworthia a type of succulent. 
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190
    I think the first is Mammilaria, distinguished by spines at the tip of a tubercle, of which there are hundreds of species. 
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Scale: 9cm round divided by pi, I make ca 3cm diameter,  That's tiny.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • DaveKearleyDaveKearley Posts: 130
    bédé said:
    Scale: 9cm round divided by pi, I make ca 3cm diameter,  That's tiny.
    My error i meant 9cm diameter, it won't let me edit now though :( 
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    The spines are as @Alan Clark2 in Liverpool has said. Mammileria not Echinocactus.

    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
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