Colecţia de cactuşi (Cactaceae Juss.) în Grădina Botanică Naţională (Institut) „Alexandru Ciubotaru”

During about 50 years, at the “Al. Ciubotaru” NBGI, the collection of plants of the Cactaceae family has been created and enriched, thus, now, at the end of 2020, it includes 985 taxa, in 141 genera. More than 50 % of the total number of taxa are able to reach the generative phase (flowering), and about 3540% produce fruits with seeds. The basic method of propagating cacti is by seeds. Freshly collected seeds germinate over 3 to 11 days, but the seedlings grow and develop very slowly