Opuntias grow with water, right temperatures, right soil and sufficent attention.
They show a remarkable abilty to come back from cold, scorching heat or neglect. But if you treat them well, they will surprise you with growth, flowers and some more growth.

Opuntias grow with water, right temperatures, right soil and sufficent attention.
They show a remarkable abilty to come back from cold, scorching heat or neglect. But if you treat them well, they will surprise you with growth, flowers and some more growth.

Opuntia hybrid (207a)

This hybrid looks like humifusa and cespitosa, but the flower colour is something different. Flower colour gets a bit darker as they age. Hard to tell the parents, but one of them was humifusa or cespitosa for sure.

Opuntia hybrid "Rom" (365)

This hybrid contains probably polyacantha and fragilis and perhaps more. Very nice flowers, nice spination as well.

Opuntia hybrid "Lavender Pink" (19)

This hybrid contains probably pinkavea, possibly fragilis or polyacantha or perhaps macrorhiza. Very nice flowers, not very spiny. Pads appear as a bit blue-green.

Opuntia pinkavea ? (79)

Small plant with no spines, only glochids. Stays low, spreads and flowers very willingly. Flower colour yellow, but fades to light pink. Unknown parentage, but certainly not pinkavea.

Opuntia humifusa? hybrid New Jersey

Intermediate plant with spines on the upper part of the plant and a lot! of glochids. Stays low, spreads and flowers very willingly. Flower colour yellow, more intense near the base. Originally acquired as humifusa New Jersey, but it is not a humifusa. Has possibly macrorhiza genes in it, but difficult to say.

Opuntia hybrid C.V.Prof Berthet

This plant is a hybrid between compressa and aciculata. It has a lot less glochids than aciculata, but it does have the bigger pad size. Flowers are a sort of red, with more pink/magenta in the middle. I think that, given space, this will be a sizeable plant.

Opuntia hybrid "Martin" (335)

This plant is for sure a hybrid between polyacantha and ???. Could be just a polyacantha hybrid, or with macrorhiza or even fraglilis denudata. Very nice colour, nicely spined also. So far it stays relatively small.

Opuntia hybrids of which I have no idea (or am not sure) about the parentage. May be also various parents, a.k.a. multihybrids.
Plants can be anything, just like the spination, fruits and the flowers.