A Gardener’s Miscellany
This week it’s:
Cacti and/or cactuses!
A close look at these spiny flowering plants
TO call a plant a ‘cactus’, it has to be a member of the true cactus family – Cactaceae. There are many succulent plants that people think of as being cacti, but they’re not. For example, the partridge-breasted aloe is in the lily family; century plants (or agaves) are in the amaryllis family; other cactus-like succulents may be euphorbias, haworthias, sedums or portulacas. But they’re not cacti. The true cactus belongs to a very large family. A small number of cacti have leaves and woody stems, but most have either tiny leaves that quickly fall away,
