Cacti and other Succulents

CactusBase

This home page is a botanical index of Cacti and other Succulents with more than 3000 photos of exotic plants, with additional growing guides

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CactusBase presents:
	More than 3000 photos of cacti and other succulents
	Cacti in nature
	Growing guides
	Links to other pages
	Index of plants
	Descriptions of plant life

This site has been the information source for more than 20000 visitors since february 1999.

CactusBase is illustrated lexicon of Cacti and other Succulents which contains over 3000 pictures of cacti and other succulent plants, lot from collections and gardens, and some from nature. It contains lot of data of natural locations and the ways of growing them in culture. Every year few hundreds of new pictures are added to species pages.

CactusBase contains the data of over 30000 locations of cacti and other succulents. These data are listed on species pages. That information help to predict the behaviors of cacti and other succulents in culture. Beside field numbers, the data of elevation and type of ground are available. Special head is the survey of cacti and succulents from Argentina and Chile.

Beside species-database, the Cacti and other Succulents site contains the growing guides for cultivating separate species in our breeding houses. Cacti and other succulents are very famous plants which need simple, but special care. The growing guide shows how to adapt the culture environment to conditions that have cacti and other succulents in nature.

CactusBase, the Cactus and other Succulents site, is ranging among most visited sites with botanical stuff. Beside picture sources CactusBase offers few hundreds of links to other similar sites which offer by commercial contents also specific data of different plant families and genus. By side of Slovenian sites, the links to over 500 pages in World Wide Web are available.

CactusBase has a starting point in database of Cacti and other Succulents. Because of database root, the lexicon is organized as index. Cacti and other Succulents are ordered on botanical names, sorted by Family and Genus names. beside name index, the picture alphabetical index is the help for easier searching in illustrated lexicon of Cacti and other Succulents.

The illustrated lexicon Cacti and other Succulents is supported with pages of Digital Photography and with descriptions of plant life of cacti in nature. The pages about cacti in nature are made up after my journey over Argentina and Chile in year 2005. Main purpose of journey over cacti fields was to describe the way of life of cacti in their natural environment.