Contents Volume 25. No 2
Summer 2014
| Editorial and more | Trevor Wray |
| Aloe cremnophila and Aloe jacksonii – cliff-dwellers from the Horn of Africa | Colin C. Walker |
| All about my Greenhouse | Roland Tebbenham |
| David Kirkbright | |
| Pleiospilos
compactus |
Trevor Wray |
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Cover
picture: You
tend not to look at Opuntias in habitat. Unless they have spectacular
flowers like this one. I recorded this at the time as Opuntia yellow
flower. Well you can’t argue with that but I guess the species is O.
macroacantha.
It was near
Sierra Mojada, Coahuila, Mexico.
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EDITORIAL and more..... |
Well
not too much more; we have tons of stuff for this issue.
Hi
and welcome to this issue of Northants News, the magazine of the NMK branch of
the BCSS. (That’s Northampton, Milton Keynes and Bedford we in NMK know.)
NN25.2
This
issue brings you insider insights in Roland’s greenhouses from someone who
should know; some wayside plants growing in Harrow and expert words on Aloe from
our local World expert. And more.
Adenium/Adenia
A total irrelevance but I was looking at images of Adenium / Adenia goetzei taken at shows. The reason for the choice of generic name is that looking at the name tags on the cultivated plants they seem to be about 50/50. The two genera are not remotely related and they are in separate families and show classes. The internet does not seem to be confused and Adenia it should be. Seems to have strange flowers straight out the root and before the leaves. Have you grown it?
Browsing
the Cactus Forum
I knew it was a bad thing to do but you have to do it. (I mean read the Forum.) In the offerings was this tempting titbit posted by our Tina under the title:
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Re:
Astrophytums-
June Journal Have
to admit I have succumbed to buying some of the 'special astro's, there is
soo much variety, this was a recent gift from Japan. It's quite large
5", just waiting for roots. Anyone know what the trendy name is? Its label came in Japanese so no use to me. |
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Above: Tina's Atrophytum and Right the same at this year's Glasgow Show |
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Sorry Tina - I have no idea what your trendy name is. A look on the net suggests it is a 'nudum' form of A. myriostigma called 'Fukuryu'. But how about ‘Myffiostigma’?) However I am fascinated / horrified by these things. And I have accumulated quite a few images on my hard drive to stimulate me late at night - or more probably give me nightmares. Try these...
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Above: Astrophytum asterias ‘Hanazono’ |
The thing above on the right must be
from the same supplier as Tina’s and I saw it at the Glasgow Show. I can’t
remember now whether I gave it a prize or not; it was in great condition
for a thing that ugly! I also can’t remember if it had a name. Now that
I might guess its origin I wonder if it glows at night. By
contrast the plant on the left has a name, Astrophytum
asterias ‘Hanazono’.
This was also snapped at Glasgow where someone has a penchant for the
unusual. Before
we upset the grandchildren with these lurid images I will complete the set
with some (below) that Stirling Baker brought along for his entertaining
talk to our branch this March. Enjoy
the mag! Cactophilitically,
Trev |
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Middle: Stirling’s Astrophytum ‘Onzuka’ |
Right; Detail of the ‘skin’ of ‘Onsuka’. |
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