Cactus and succulent flowers
Desert plants that flower briefly and brightly.
Showy stonecropHylotelephium spectabile
A pink-flowered succulent from China, popular in gardens and bouquets
🇨🇳 China · Garden flower
Crown of thornsEuphorbia milii
A spiny flowering shrub with red, pink, or white bracts, native to Madagascar
🇲🇬 Madagascar and 5 more · Wildflower
Desert roseAdenium obesum
A succulent shrub with bright pink to red flowers and a swollen base
🇲🇷 Mauritania and 7 more · Wildflower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Showy stonecrop: André Karwath aka Aka, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Crown of thorns: Ezra Katz, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Desert rose: ZSM, CC BY-SA 4.0, source