Cactus or a Succulent? I collect a lot of cactus, but I have criteria which they must produce tasty sweet fruit.

A stapeliad of some sort, maybe Huernia

no fruit. Huernia zebrina var. magniflora. wanted to get Huernia oculata, but couldn't find any. 

sure, do post pix. i love rare and different plant :)

try Aridlands nursery, Miles to go nursey, or Guy Wrinkle nursery. Check out "Stapeliads, Orchids of the Succulent World" for great pics. The owner of the site is a personal friend.

Here are some of the cactus I have for its flowers

Trichocereus grandiflorus 'Snow White'

Trichocereus grandiflorus 'Epic' (on the second picture, I was not at the home during the time the flower opened :()


Opuntia monacantha

Some of the rarer fruiting columnar cactus

Echinopsis atacamensis subsp. pascana


Stenocereus stellatus (back left)


Cereus fernambucensis (fairy castle like form)


Various Opuntia sp. and other fruiting cacti


Yes I am addicted to collecting rare and tasty cactus fruits as well lol.

thanks barry :) i think i found a source for H. quinta. :) 

Null, great pics!  Are you growing any of your Pitaya in containers?  I'd love to see your trellis/support method.  Feel free to post the pics in my thread!

Whoa very cool stuff, enjoyed the thread

after few pints of rum and coke, the H. zebrina looks sort of like urban tiger stripe. lol

and being sober, i noticed the soil mix is working like i wanted. and the succulent is little fatter. now they stay dry for about a week or more. till next watering. 

Find Huernia pictures (et alia) here: http://www.vivaiocorazza.com/galleria.htm

woo how!!! H. oculata, and H. quinta came in today. i'll post pix after I pot them up. i'm looking foward to Huernia flowers. maybe they'll smell nasty :)

They do smell nasty, but some stapeliads are far worse

here they are H.oculata, and H.quinta. 

Very nice. Is that pure crushed granite potting mix.

the soil is 2:3:3 peat moss, perlite and crushed coarse sand. top is about 1/4" of sand so the stems don't sit on wet soil. the soil completely drains in about 3 days.