SS02 × Olivia

Photographs

My own pictures of this plant, taken in the yard.

• Enlarge A rooted SS02 × Olivia lifted out with its soil still on, held in a gloved hand over the concrete walk; one dark green stem splits into four short heads, and small amber spines cover it evenly from the pale neck upward. — May 2026

  May 2026

• Enlarge A small plant just out of the ground, held up in a work glove with a clod of dark soil still gripping the roots; three or four short heads rise together off one pale corky base, all of them dotted with small brown spines. — May 2026

  May 2026

• Enlarge A small cactus with three dark blue-green heads on one base, one of them taller than the other two, its ribs set with rows of small flat stars of short copper spines, held in a black work glove over a concrete walkway with a tan corky neck and a clump of soil and fine roots… — Small water droplets sit on the heads. · May 2026

  Small water droplets sit on the heads. · May 2026

• Enlarge A small dark green cactus held in a black work glove above a concrete walkway, three heads rising from one fused base with the left head tallest and slimmest, short gold spines in star clusters all over it, and a pale corky neck below running into a clod of dark soil and roots… — May 2026

  May 2026

• Enlarge A crowded cluster of dozens of small green heads, each ringed with white areoles and short bristly spines, held up on a solid block of dark root-bound soil, over a bed where rows of small cuttings stand in the mulch behind. — May 2026

  May 2026