Echinocactus polycephalus

If you ever want to try growing your own cotton top cactus, consider buying seeds from my etsy. the link is in my bio. $13 bucks for 150 seeds & they ship free all over the USA. Collected on my farm and not from the wild. Have sold over 12000 of these seeds and now i see lots of baby cactus on the market, which makes me happy because maybe now they wont be poached as bad if people can buy them legally 😀 before nobody grew them really. the golden barrel was almost poached into extinction (1/2)

(2/2) before it was grown on a massive scale and made available everywhere. hope for a similar path for this cactus before it is ever threatened. #cactus #xeriscape #californianativeplants #seeds #mojavedesert

Beautiful, sadly I live in Belgium...

So true. Recently went Kayaking on the Colorado River and admired these beauties growing on the sides of mountains. No one’s going to poach those beauties. 😁🌞

@thatonegardenkid im actually looking into a customs service that can verify the seeds for international shipping, so maybe later this year 😀

@sunlovin i love seeing them on my untouched lands. they can grow right out of rocks on a slope its crazy! some are 500 years old. that is what helps them stay safe! ive chased poachers off before but now i patrol and have sensors in big ones with trackers

Good for you. Anything to save these beauties. 😊🌞

Quirky name for this spikey variety! 🤪

@KariSamuel haha its because their fruits look like cotton balls

@sunlovin 😃👍 i actually sold the last of them today haha. very happy people all over the usa are growing them now

Found a small little pot for my baby red cactus 🌵😃✌ #funkyplants #agriculture #winter #farmer #farming #nature #happy #landscapedesign #plants #entrepreneur #landscaper #naturephotography #landscaping #losangeles #california #gardening #garden #la #cali #cactus #cacti #barrelcactus #echinocactus #echinocactuspolycephalus #permaculture

Now that's a weapon

Looks a bit like a dragon tongue cactus....

@thehardygardener haha for real. I have stepped on larger ones and the spine went thru a carbon fiber toe boot. Things are sharp 😄 nature is beautiful but deadly 😂

@heatherdirtyhands never heard of that one lol sounds cool

Look em up! Very cool

Omg, fir real! We have steel plates in our chainsaws safety boots, kevlar and steel toe caps! They keep my feet on the ground on windy day's. Dorothy....

So pretty

@thehardygardener hahaha 😄 i love my carbon fibre boots, blocks everything but these spines, but lighter then my steel toes

Hmm I feel a research project, update the stomping boots and get back my fairy steps

#wickedspines !