Page 1/2 Jan de Vriese is one of our cactus fellows in Belgium. He started to grow the spiny plants when only 10 years old. Now, 26 years later, he has a most interesting and beautiful collection consisting of 2000-2500 plants. Jan mainly grow globular cacti and preferably from the genera Lobivia, Rebutia and Sulcorebutia.

 

	Jan de Vriese relaxing in one of his greenhouses in Gent, Belgium.
	Rebutia narvaecense with pink flowers and Rebutia hybrid with white flowers
	Rebutia perplexa with bright pink flowers. Also Echinocereus and a flowering Rebutia pygmaea with salmon-pink flowers
	Seedlings, seedlings and seedlings ...
	Rebutia heliosa v. RH 280 with variable and large flowers.
	Gymnocalycium baldianum hybrids with all kinds of flower colour. All raised by Jan. He has now some 120 different forms ...
	Weingartia species. Most species have yellow flowers, but there are also a few with orange and red petals. They come from Bolivia and northern Argentina. Free flowering if kept cold at ca 5 C during winter. Red flowering sort in front is and unnamed Weingartia spec. HS164.
	Rebutia! Young seedlings from SuccSeeds seed flowering in the Belgian collection.
	Rebutia pygmaea v. knizei WR 676a just planted in own pots. The plants are ca 20-30 mm high and one of the few yellow flowering varieties of Rebutia pygmaea.