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[[File:CactiExchange-logo.png|104px|link=|The CactiExchange Wiki]]
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<div style="color:#5c6b5e; color:var(--color-subtle,#5c6b5e); font-size:1.05em; max-width:44em; margin:0.35em auto 0">The community encyclopedia of cacti & succulents — '''{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}''' articles on identification, cultivation and propagation, free for everyone.</div>
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[[Special:Search|🔍 '''Search the wiki''']] · [[Special:AllPages|📚 All articles]] · [[:Category:Guides|🌱 Care guides]] · [[Special:Random|🎲 Random plant]]
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<div style="font-weight:bold; margin-bottom:0.3em">Not sure where to start?</div>
* '''New to succulents?''' → [[Soil and potting mix]], then [[Watering]] — the two things that decide whether a plant lives.
* '''Looking a plant up?''' → find it under [[#Browse by group|Browse by group]] below, or just [[Special:Search|search its name]].
* '''Something wrong with your plant?''' → [[Rot and rescue]] · [[Pests and diseases]] · [[Etiolation]]
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== Browse by group ==
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<div style="font-weight:bold; font-size:1.08em">🌵 [[:Category:Cactus|Cacti]]</div>
<div style="color:#5c6b5e; color:var(--color-subtle,#5c6b5e); font-size:0.92em; margin:0.15em 0 0.4em">{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Cactus|pages}} articles — barrels, columns, globes & epiphytes</div>
[[Astrophytum]] · [[Mammillaria]] · [[Gymnocalycium]] · [[Ferocactus]] · [[Copiapoa]] · [[Opuntia]] · [[Echinocereus]] · [[Parodia]]
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<div style="font-weight:bold; font-size:1.08em">🌿 [[:Category:Crassulaceae|Leaf succulents]]</div>
<div style="color:#5c6b5e; color:var(--color-subtle,#5c6b5e); font-size:0.92em; margin:0.15em 0 0.4em">{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Crassulaceae|pages}} articles — rosettes & jades</div>
[[Echeveria]] · [[Crassula]] · [[Sedum]] · [[Graptopetalum]] · [[Kalanchoe]] · [[Sempervivum]]
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<div style="font-weight:bold; font-size:1.08em">🪨 [[:Category:Aizoaceae|Living stones & mesembs]]</div>
<div style="color:#5c6b5e; color:var(--color-subtle,#5c6b5e); font-size:0.92em; margin:0.15em 0 0.4em">{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Aizoaceae|pages}} articles — stone mimics</div>
[[Lithops]] · [[Conophytum]] · [[Pleiospilos]] · [[Faucaria]] · [[Titanopsis]] · [[Dinteranthus]]
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<div style="font-weight:bold; font-size:1.08em">🌺 [[:Category:Asphodelaceae|Aloes & haworthias]]</div>
<div style="color:#5c6b5e; color:var(--color-subtle,#5c6b5e); font-size:0.92em; margin:0.15em 0 0.4em">{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Asphodelaceae|pages}} articles</div>
[[Aloe]] · [[Haworthia]] · [[Haworthiopsis]] · [[Gasteria]] · [[Astroloba]] · [[Bulbine]]
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<div style="font-weight:bold; font-size:1.08em">🌟 [[:Category:Euphorbiaceae|Euphorbias]]</div>
<div style="color:#5c6b5e; color:var(--color-subtle,#5c6b5e); font-size:0.92em; margin:0.15em 0 0.4em">{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Euphorbiaceae|pages}} articles — cactus look-alikes with milky sap</div>
[[Euphorbia]] · [[Euphorbia obesa]] · [[Euphorbia trigona]]
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<div style="font-weight:bold; font-size:1.08em">⭐ [[:Category:Apocynaceae|Stapeliads & caudiciforms]]</div>
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[[Stapelia]] · [[Huernia]] · [[Adenium]] · [[Pachypodium]] · [[Ceropegia]]
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<div style="font-weight:bold; font-size:1.08em">🗡️ [[:Category:Asparagaceae|Agaves & relatives]]</div>
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[[Agave]] · [[Sansevieria]] · [[Yucca]]
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<div style="font-weight:bold; font-size:1.08em">✨ [[:Category:Cultivars|Cultivars & oddities]]</div>
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[[:Category:Genera|All {{PAGESINCATEGORY:Genera|pages}} genera]] · [[Special:AllPages|Every article A–Z]]
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== Care guides ==
Everything you need to keep them alive — written specifically for cacti and succulents, not houseplants in general.
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* [[Soil and potting mix]]
* [[Watering]]
* [[Repotting]]
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<div style="font-weight:bold">🌱 [[Propagation|Make more plants]]</div>
* [[Propagation — seed|From seed]] · [[Propagation — cuttings|Cuttings]]
* [[Propagation — offsets|Offsets & pups]] · [[Propagation — leaf|Leaves]]
* [[Grafting]]
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* [[Rot and rescue]] — the number-one killer
* [[Pests and diseases]]
* [[Etiolation]] — pale, stretched growth
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<div style="font-weight:bold">🎋 Going further</div>
* [[Bonsai|Succulent bonsai]]
* [[:Category:Guides|Every guide]]
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== Featured article ==
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'''[[Astrophytum asterias]]''' — the sand dollar cactus: a spineless, flecked disc from the Texas–Mexico borderlands, and one of the most collected cacti in the world. A good look at what a full article here covers — identification, habitat, cultivation, propagation and cultivars.
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== Looking for San Pedro? ==
''[[Trichocereus]]'' pages here are brief pointers. The community's dedicated San Pedro resource lives at [https://sanpedrocact.us '''sanpedrocact.us'''] — that's the place for in-depth San Pedro growing, cloning and identification.
== About this wiki ==
The CactiExchange Wiki is the open reference behind the [https://www.reddit.com/r/cactiexchange r/cactiexchange] trading community. When members discuss a species, the community bot links here automatically. Articles cover identification, cultivation, propagation and common problems.
== Contribute ==
Anyone can create an account and improve existing pages after confirming their email address. New pages and major structural changes are reviewed by editors before going live.
* '''📷 Photos are our biggest need.''' Almost every article is still waiting on one — look for the "no photo yet" prompt and [[Special:Upload|add yours]], with credit.
* '''Spot an error?''' Every page has an '''Edit''' tab. Corrections are welcome and reviewed.
* See what the community is working on in [[Special:RecentChanges|recent changes]].
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