Blue Barrel Cactus Make a Beautiful Bloom

by | Jun 8, 2020 | Cactus Are Cool

Echinocactus horizonthalonius, sometimes called eagle claw or blue barrel and sometimes mistaken for Echinocactus texensis, the horse crippler,  is native to the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts, northern Mexico and the Trans-Pecos area of Texas. I have six...

I Wish I Had More Blue Barrel Cactus

by | Jun 1, 2017 | Cactus Are Cool

I was given permission to collect cactus at a ranch in the Marfa, Texas, area a few years ago and was delighted to find these chubby little blue barrels that I thought were just a fatter version of the horse cripplers I had gathered in Muleshoe and in the Texas Hill...