Wisk yourself away to the coastal dry forests and xeric scrublands of Cuba, where thorny plants are abundant. There you will find this stunning arborescent opuntioid, famous for its areolate-reticulate obovate cladodes (tr. its weird wrinkly pad), offering shade to geckoes and a perch for the West Indian Woodpecker. -Cactus Store

Greetings from San Luis Potosi, where exotic fruits fall from the trees. Not to be left out of your lunch is the small pepper-shaped fruit of Mammillaria haniana. Buen provecho. -Cactus Store

In that great laboratory of evolution where marine Iguanas reign, Brachycereus nesioticus grows without soil on barren lava fields. -Cactus Store