If you don't want to share your apartment with a expansive columnar cactus, keep an eye out for suitable types of cactus for your home. They should be small in growth and colorful in bloom. This selection introduces you to the most beautiful types and varieties.

Cacti are easy-care, extraordinary indoor plants

Prickly dwarfs up to 40 cm high

Cactus species that remain small are ideal for planting cacti in a bowl, glass or aquarium for the home. The following species and varieties inspire with graceful growth and pretty flowers:

  • Dwarf cactus (Chamaecereus silvestrii): growth height 5-10 cm, finger-shaped, prostrate stems, white thorns, red flowers
  • Greisenhaupt (Cephalocereus senilis): growth height 20-30 cm, columnar, white hairy body
  • Lobivia hertrichiana: stature height 5-10 cm stature height, cylindrical, branched body, large, scarlet flowers

Spherical cacti for the home

With their round body, breathtaking dress of thorns and exotic flowers, the following cacti appear like creatures from another world:

  • Bishop's cap (Astrophytum): growth height 20-40 cm and a months-long flowering period throughout the summer
  • Golden ball cactus (Echinocactus grusonii): growth height and width maximum 50 cm, golden-yellow, strong thorns, yellow flowers

The ideal cacti for the home also include the round-shaped Parodia aureispina, which can reach a maximum diameter of 15 cm. Up to 12 bright yellow flowers unfold in spring, which attract everyone's attention over a period of 3 weeks.

Leaf cacti for windowsills and hanging baskets

If you don't feel like bothering with sharp thorns, you don't have to do without cactus magic in your home. The following cacti do without a prickly robe and boast decorative leaves and a magnificent flower:

  • Christmas cactus (Schlumberga): growth height 30-40 cm, slender, drooping shoots, beautiful flowers at Christmas time
  • Coral cactus (Rhipsalis): growth length up to 30 cm, light green, narrow leaf tendrils and white-green flowers

One of the most beautiful leaf cacti for the apartment is called 'German Empress'. The richly branched, lush green tendrils reach a length of up to 100 cm. Its pink, funnel-shaped flowers, which reach a diameter of 10 cm, are breathtakingly beautiful.

tips

To keep your cacti blooming again and again, most species and varieties require a cool, dry winter dormancy. In the period from November to February, place the plants in a light location with temperatures between 5 and 12 degrees Celsius.

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