1 Gasteria ‘Aramatsu’ monstrose CONTENTS Gasteria ‘Aramatsu’ Monstrose ..................................................................................................................... Front cover & 4 Twenty five year of Haworthia Study. Guy Wrinkle............................................................................................................................... 2-5 Aloes with short stems in Botswana. Bruce Hargreaves ......................................................................................................................... 6-7 Haworthia Update Volume 3 ................................................................................................................................................................... 8-9 Aloe ‘Hardy’s Dream’ Cultivar Nova. Harry Mays & John Trager. .......................................................................................................... 10 Haworthia ‘Sandra’ Cultivar Nova. Cok Grootscholten .......................................................................................................................... 10 Seed lists ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 11-13 Beautiful Succulents - Haworthia. Takashi Rukuya .................................................................................................................................. 14 International Code of Botanical Nomenclature 2006 ................................................................................................................................ 14 Gasteria ‘Little Warty’ D. Cumming. Gasteria ‘Limeade’ H.C.K. Mak. ............................................................................................... 15 Gasterhaworthia Guillaumin. D. M. Cumming ................................................................................................................................... 15-17 A new Aloe species in Manica province, Mozambique? Pedro Capela. Antonius Rulkens. ............................................................... 18-21 Haworthia mortonii I. Breuer spec. nov. ............................................................................................................................................ 22-24 Volume 7. Issue 1. March 2007 ISSN: 1474-4635 Alsterworthia International. Volume 7. Issue 1. TWENTY FIVE YEARS OF HAWORTHIA STUDY Guy Wrinkle Email: [email protected] Website: www.rareexotics.com My first introduction to plants was with orchids and curator there and I was able to see all the plants in his bromeliads, but I soon became very interested in other collection. As many of these species were not in groups of plants such as succulents, caudiciforms, cultivation in the USA at that time this was all very cycads and bulbs. My first real introduction to interesting. Frank and I went further east a few days Haworthia was from my very good friend Bob Foster. later and found Haworthia habdomadis, maughanii and At this time Bob was editor of the Cactus and truncata. Succulent Journal along with Charles Glass. They also I returned to South Africa by myself the following owned Abbey Garden Nursery in Reseda, California. I year and stayed with Bruce for about a week. He took greatly admired Bob and his wonderful collection of me to the habitat of many Haworthia species and his plants but, at that time, I could not understand why he son took me to several more. Once we were crawling wanted to grow Haworthia. I was more interested in under some very thick brush to find Haworthia large caudiciforms and felt that plants like Haworthia parksiana and I found myself nose to nose with a very were pretty low class. I mentioned this to Bob and he large dog. I tried to be quiet and slowly started to crawl showed me how Haworthia plants were infinitely backwards. I think that I was very lucky because the variable and I developed an interest in them that soon dog did not follow me. So, Haworthia parksiana is one became an obsession. species that I have not seen in habitat. I soon made contact with other Haworthia collectors The following year, I returned to South Africa in the USA and started to build up a large collection. again, and again I stayed with Bruce Bayer for about a Soon these small plants took up a very large space, but week. Bruce again, very kindly helped me with this was not a problem because they do not require a localities and many other things. The plants which I greenhouse in the part of Southern California where I was receiving from South Africa formed the live. I can still remember how excited I was to receive foundation of the large Haworthia collection that I was plants in the mail from collectors such as Mary Ann building up. Bruce come to the USA and helped me Heacock and Jay Dodson. Mary Ann Heacock was with the proper identification of the plants in my receiving many plants from Bruce Bayer in South collection. Bruce helped me in many other ways and he Africa and Jay Dodson was in charge of the ISI and I continued to correspond for several years. (International Succulent Institute). As my educational When I left Bruce, I went north to Pretoria and the background is in evolutionary biology I wanted Botanical Research Institute. There I saw David Hardy collection locality data with all my plants and this was who was the curator of the succulent collection. He provided with the plants I received from these two very kindly let me take cuttings for many of their people. I also received plants from other notable documented Haworthia plants. Dave and his wife Pat collectors at that time such as Ann Shein, Vivian became very good friends of mine and, sadly, both of Doney and Jack Catlin. It is also notable that at this them have now died. time, one of my customers was Bob Kent whom The following year, I returned to South Africa again Steven Hammer wrote so much about in an earlier and spent a few weeks with some other very good issue of Haworthia Study. Bob was just starting his friends of mine, Bruce and Joan Bursey. We saw many vast collection at this time and every time he came to of the Haworthia species of the East Cape in habitat. see me, he would also bring his notebook to see to it To me, the most interesting of these were H. sordida at that he would not purchase something that he already Kirkwood where there is a very interesting form of had. Louis Burks, who owned a nursery specializing in Encephalartos lehmanii and H. emelyae at Zebra. Here Haworthia and did live in California at that time, was the plants are large and the same colour as the reddish also one of my earlier customers. soil. This and the fact that the plants grow flush to the I started corresponding with Bruce Bayer in South ground make them difficult to find. Bruce also took me Africa and he was very kind and helpful to me. About to see Col. Scott and his haworthias. If you are reading this time, I became very good friends with Frank this, then I am sure that you know there was a lot of Horwood who had come over from England to work at dissension between Bruce Bayer and Col. Scott. When Abbey Garden Nursery. Frank had been to Africa Col. Scott wrote his book on Haworthia, I was asked to several times before and soon we made plans to go to write a review for the Journal of the Cactus and Africa together. At this time, which was about 1980, I Succulent Society of America. My review was not very not only had not been out of the USA, I had never even favourable and I was asked to change it. When I said I been on a plane. Needless to say, this was all very would not do this, the editors of the Journal had exciting for me. someone else write a more favourable review and then We meet Bruce Bayer and went to see Haworthia both reviews were published together. granulata and the Haworthia collection at the Karoo I then went to see some very good friends in Garden in Worcester. At that time Bruce was the Pretoria, Emdan and Shirley Pienaar. I have known 2 Alsterworthia International. Volume 7. Issue 1. 2 3 Gasteria ‘Gagyu ’ 4 Haworthia picta hybrid from Japan. 5 Gasteria nitida v. armstrongii ‘Yellow Cow’ 6 Haworthia bayeri ‘Zaramado Variegated’ 8 Gasteria armstrongii variegated ARM10 7 Gasteria armstrongii ‘Pearl’ 9 Haworthia splendens x Haworthia picta 10 Gasteria pillansii variegated Gasteria armstrongii collected plant Alsterworthia International. Volume 7. Issue 1. 3 them both for many years and they have been very was not only very helpful with his suggestions but, good friends. Sadly Emden and Bruce Bursey died not seeing his collection, demonstrated that he had too long after this visit with them. Emdan and I went to achieved a great level of skill in growing these plants. see Doug McMurtery and then we went to see I have been to Germany many times and a few Haworthia mcmurtryi in habitat. The next day we went years ago, I visited Ingo Breuer who is the author of to see Haworthia koelmaniorum in habitat. There were The World of Haworthias and Notes on Haworthia. reports of a new species of Haworthia growing quite a Ingo was also very kind with his time and in showing bit further north and Emdan and I went to find it. We me his plants and answering my questions. looked all day but did not find a thing. Now, my main interest in Haworthia as well as About this time (1983/1984) I started doing a series Gasteria and small Agave plants is in the selections and of articles for the Journal of the Cactus and Succulent hybrids