Aside from flowers there are other signs that a cactus or succulent is happy and growing. New growth spines can often be brilliantly colored along with the new growth itself. Note the magnificent chocolate color of the Gymnocalycium hosseii or the purple of Aztekium ritteri. New offsets, paddles and arms can be pristine and beautifully colored as well. The Cereus hildmannianus monstrose was cut back to a stump last fall, the new arms it's produced are a gorgeous blue grey. And you have to love the tiny new red heads on my Mammillaria "Fred".

Aztekium ritteri	Aztekium ritteri	Cereus hildmannianus monstrose	Echinocereus reichenbachii
Euphorbia ammak variegata	Ferocactus gracilis	Gasteria 'Little Warty'	Grusonia invicta
Grusonia invicta	Gymnocalycium hossei	Mammillaria bocosana 'Fred'	Mammillaria geminispina
Matucana madisonorium	Monadenium giletii	Monadenium ritchiei	Mytillocactus geometrizans
Opuntia gosseliniana	Opuntia gosseliniana	Opuntia microdasys rufida	Opuntia monocantha variegata
Pachycereus schottii	Polaskia chichipe	Sansevieria pinguicula	Schwantesia borcherdsii
Senecio stapeliaformis	Tephrocactus alexanderi	Tephrocactus articulatus var. papyracanthus	Unknown ephiphytic cactus