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Highlights of Baja California Winter Wonders Gardening with Succulents Essex SucculentReview Volume 53 Number 4 December 2016 In this issue Highlights of Baja California by Angie Money Winter wonders Three small mammillarias by Tony Roberts Gardening with succulents Smaller cacti The final part of this series Ferocactus diguetii by Paul Spracklin Cactus Crawl the Brexit tour 30 March – 2 April 2017 This could be the last time we We will make our way to the first many more interesting questions travel into Continental Europe nursery, Cactus Flower, on the will be raised and answered in the without visas, border controls, the outskirts of Antwerp. This was a hotel bar, over a croissant and on need for phytosanitary certificates new nursery for us last year and the coach. for plants or with a European now one of the most popular. Come and observe the day four passport! Mark what could be an Having exchanged some euros for ritual of packing the plant boxes historic occasion by joining this plants we are off to one of our into the hold under the coach, a band of intrepid Crawlers on yet favourite hotels, the Postillion in space much smaller than the size another foray into the succulent Dordrecht. of all the boxes. Listen to the territories of Holland, Belgium For the next three days we will use tutting as everyone notices that and Germany. the Postillion as our base as we most of the big boxes belong to Once more we have secured off- tour 10 more nurseries in Holland me. See if I care. street parking in the car park of and Germany. Favourites such as Capel Manor Horticultural College, Kakteen Piltz, Lakerveld and the The photograph above gives some just minutes from J25 of the M25. vast wholesale nurseries of Holland idea of the vastness the Dutch From here you will have your own will be visited, along with two new wholesale nurseries and the double seat in a luxury coach, nurseries for this trip. One enormity of some of the available which will whisk you down to, and specialises in Lithops and the other plants. The only limit is how much through, the Chunnel. in Asclepiadaceae and unusual you can carry. hoyas. The staff at the Postillion At the time of writing there are still have come to know us very well, a few spaces left. The basis of the but even so are still keen to Essex four day tour is half-board at the welcome us back. Review Postillion and the cost is £387 for a Succulent Does Kakteen Piltz have the best single room and £337 per person The Essex Succulent Review is coffee and biscuits? Does Hans at for a double room. For more published quarterly in March, Lakerveld have the biggest clogs in information, please contact James June, September and December. Holland? Will I bring back some Gold on 07765 131883 or unfeasibly large plants? These and [email protected] It is available on-line free of charge. Just send an email to [email protected] to receive a pdf of each issue Zone 15 Mini-Convention when it is available. Sunday 19 March 2017 – 1.00pm Past issues are archived at Alice Vanden Bon – ‘South Africa – first class’ www.essexsucculentreview.org.uk Keith and Kathy Flanagan – ‘Our collection’ Editor Sheila Cude Plant sales – Plantlife: Book sales – Keith Larkin Address 25 Macleod Road Venue: Capel Manor College, Bullsmoor Lane, Enfield, EN1 4RQ London N21 1SW Tickets £15, to include a buffet lunch and afternoon tea from Phone 020 8340 1928 Eddy Harris, 49 Chestnut Glen, Hornchurch, Essex, RM12 4HL Email Phone 01708 447778 email [email protected] [email protected] Plus free admission to Capel Manor’s extensive grounds from 10.00am 2 Highlights of Baja California by Angie Money Ferocactus sp San % Quintin We normally reach San Quintin on our second day in Baja California. The Hotel Santa Maria is always very welcoming and it is right on the seafront. The food is excellent and the rooms, which are all in colonial style, have balconies which overlook the beach. Above and above right: Dudleya anthonyi 3 Highlights of Baja California continued Above: After breakfast the next morning we drive Dudleya edulis grows here too overlooking Dudleya edulis to the other side of the bay. It takes about the bay. You can also find Echinocereus Above right: an hour to get there by car. You will know maritima, Mammillaria dioica and a Mammillaria dioica you are at the right place when you see the Ferocactus species, hills of volcanic rock. or there may be two On the other side of the road is the type species. locality of Dudleya anthonyi. They are not always easily visible as, both times we have been, there were a lot of bushes in leaf. But there are many dudleyas and it is not easy to pick the best one to photograph. Echinocereus maritima and (inset) its flower 4 Highlights of Baja California continued The Cataviña % Boulderfields A good place to stay is the Hotel Mision Cataviña if they have space. From the hotel you can walk straight in to the boulder fields. It is a really amazing place. First of all you can see some very tall Pachycereus pringlei and, often just as tall, the Boojum tree (Idria columnaris/Fouquieria columnaris). You will find several Cylindropuntia; the one I like best is Cylindropuntia molesta, especially photographed against the sun. Cylindropuntia molesta Boojum tree (Fouquieria columnaris) 5 Highlights of Baja California continued Above: Ferocactus gracilis You will lots of find Ferocactus gracilis of We spotted a Euphorbia lomelii, most growing in front of all sizes with their intense red spines. people would call it a stick Euphorbia, but Pachycormus Nearer to the road you see Pachycormus it looked really nice with its red bracts. discolor discolor growing out of the boulders in any Lophocereus schottii is also present but Above right: shape and size. Different Agave species are does not seem to be as tall as we have Euphorbia lomelii also present. The Mammillaria you find seen them in other places. Bergerocactus almost everywhere is of course M. dioica. emoryi seems to grow mainly in the sandy There are other mammillarias too, but I do areas. I am sure that I have never seen all not know their names. the cacti and succulents which grow there. 6 Highlights of Baja California continued Ferocactus diguetii flowers Around La Ventana and Isla Cerralvo Isla Cerralvo has The night before our planned trip to see the been officially endemic cacti on the Isla, we had a fiery % renamed as Isla sunset followed by an almighty Jacques Cousteau, thunderstorm. The next day it looked as if but most locals still the rain would not stop, but by midday the call it by its old name. We stayed in a nice clouds cleared away. B and B overlooking the beach from which Our enthusiastic we could see the island. captain, Enrico, Mammillaria cerralvo Mammillaria sp 7 Highlights of Baja California continued managed to get us wet anyway, he was called us for lunch, which was excellent. probably thinking he was driving a None of us were looking forward to the speedboat, which it was not. journey back. We all made sure our cameras where well covered and we were We were glad to reach Isla Cerralvo and glad to be on land again at the end. recover from the journey which was easy as we could already see some huge Before visiting the island we had gone to Ferocactus diguetii (see front cover). There the airport to pick up our friend Eunice. We were also some small mammillarias had made a few stops when we spotted (possibly M. estebanensis) and some larger Pachycereus pecten-aboriginum in bud, Mammillaria cerralvo. flower and fruit and Pachycereus pringlei in bud and flower. After an hour we carried on to another part I of the island but at a slower speed. There Photos: Angie Money Below: were more of the same and I found the (Please note that, because of the small scale, Pachycereus pringlei biggest Mammillaria cerralvo. Then Enrico the map locations are approximate) Pachycereus pecten-aboriginum – flower Pachycereus pecten-aboriginum – fruit 8 Cacti cards by Tony Clifford I recently acquired a complete mint set of me, and the illustrations seem to ‘fit’, 25 cards issued by Lamberts of Norwich there are one or two oddities. For with packets of their blends of tea. The example, card No 10 is entitled cards are undated, but are probably from Hickenia microsperma. the early 1960s, since this set is the same Hickenia is a genus from Argentina as that issued by Amalgamated Tobacco in published by Nathaniel Lord Britton 1961. Each card features a colour and Joseph Nelson Rose in ‘The illustration of a species of cactus on the Cactaceae’ (1922). They recognised front and a descriptive text on the back. just one variable species now known While most of the species are familiar to as Parodia microsperma. Indeed, the text on the card concludes: ‘Also known as Parodia microsperma’. The name Hickenia commemorates Cristobal Maria Hicken, a professor at the University of Buenos Aires. However, the name could not stand because it had been used Malacocarpus mammulosus three years earlier for a (Parodia mammulosa) genus of Apocynaceae containing one species native to Hickenia (Parodia) microsperma Argentina now reclassified as 9 Cacti cards continued grafted plant. This species has also been known as Echinocactus, Notocactus and Ritterocactus; in 1987 Nigel Taylor placed it firmly in Parodia and its accepted scientific name is now Parodia mammulosa.
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