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TheCactus Explorer The first free on-line Journal for Cactus and Succulent Enthusiasts 1 Echinocactus grusonii 2 Parodia (Eriocactus) Number 7 3 Austrocactus hibernus ISSN 2048-0482 4 Travels in Arizona February 2013 5 Succulents of Tenerife The Cactus Explorer ISSN 2048-0482 Number 7 February 2013 IN THIS EDITION Regular Features Articles Introduction 3 Copiapoa angustiflora 24 News and Events 4 Observations concerning Parodia (Eriocactus) 27 Recent New Descriptions 9 Matucana hoxeyi 40 In the Glasshouse 11 Travel with the cactus expert (6) 42 Tephrocactus bonnieae 11 Let us visit one of the Macaronesian Islands, Echinocereus hancockii 13 ‘Tenerife’ 47 Journal Roundup 16 A visit to the habitat of Austrocactus hibernus On-line Journals 18 in Argentina 54 The Love of Books 20 In praise of Echinocactus grusonii and the Cactus People Histories 22 joy of a new locality 57 Society Pages 62 Late Addition Plants and Seeds for Sale 65 Note on seeds of Matucana hoxeyi and its Books for Sale 70 relatives 8 The No.1 source for on-line information about cacti and succulents is http://www.cactus-mall.com Cover Picture Echinocactus grusonii at the recently discovered new locality near San Juan Capistrano in Zacatecas, Mexico. Photograph by Zlatko Janeba Invitation to Contributors Please consider the Cactus Explorer as the place to publish your articles. We welcome contributions for any of the regular features or a longer article with pictures on any aspect of cacti and succulents. The editorial team is happy to help you with preparing your work. Please send your submissions as plain text in a ‘Word’ document together with jpeg or tiff images with the maximum resolution available. A major advantage of this on-line format is the possibility of publishing contributions quickly and any issue is never full! We aim to publish your article within 3 months and the copy deadline is just a few days before the publication date which is planned for the 10th of February, May, August and November. Please note that advertising and links are free and provided for the benefit of readers. Adverts are placed at the discretion of the editorial team, based on their relevance to the readership. Publisher: The Cactus Explorers Club, Briars Bank, Fosters Bridge, Ketton, Stamford, PE9 3BF U.K. The Cactus Explorer is available as a PDF file downloadable from www.cactusexplorers.org.uk The Editorial Team: This issue published on Organiser:Graham Charles [email protected] Scientific Adviser: Roy Mottram [email protected] February 10th 2013 Paul Hoxey [email protected] There is a stat. nov. on Zlatko Janeba [email protected] page 40 of this issue Martin Lowry [email protected] Opinions expressed in the articles are those of the authors, and not necessarily those of the editorial team. The Cactus Explorer may be freely distributed whilst the copyright of the text and pictures remains with the authors and photographers. Permission is required for any use other than reading, printing or storage. 2 Number 7 February 2013 ISSN 2048-0482 The Cactus Explorer INTRODUCTION Longer days at last! As you read this, the weather in northern Europe will still be cold, perhaps very cold, but at least the days will be getting longer and encouraging us to think of warm sunshine to come. By the time the plants are ready to start into growth, I am always keen to spend time in the glasshouse and get the growing season started. Some of my friends do their repotting in the winter but I have never been tempted to undertake such work in the cold. One of the plants are to be used for study. Wild seed is best things about a glasshouse is the climate also the most likely to exhibit a wide range of within it when the sun is out, not only warmer diversity as can be seen in the tray of Copiapoa but dryer than outside. columna-alba pictured above. Among the first and most pleasing jobs in There is a real sense of achievement when the season is seed sowing. I am surprised how you succeed in growing a plant from seed to many enthusiasts do not grow plants from flowering for the first time. It is also pleasing to seed. Some lack confidence in their ability to keep a few plants of the same batch from raise plants successfully, while others think it which you can untimately save your own true will take too long. The majority of cacti are seed, a valuable practical conservation activity. straightforward to grow from seed although You can find links to many commercial seed there are some which are sensitive or very producers on pages 65-69 of this journal. Some slow growing, so requiring special treatment. of the national and specialist societies publish The reward is that you can see the natural extensive lists of reasonably-priced seeds for variation in the seedlings. They often vary not their members. It is worth joining just for this just in appearance but also in vitality. You can benefit. choose to keep the best-looking or the fastest I am delighted that we are now attracting growing. Many species are much easier to find more advertisements from dealers. These are on seed lists than as plants, especially if you published for your benefit, the reader, since want more specialist species. you may not know of many really good Seed collected in habitat with location data suppliers of seeds, plants and books if they or a field number is particularly valuable if the don’t advertise in your local journal. Best wishes for 2013! Graham Hole † GrahamCharles After a long struggle with cancer, Graham Hole passed away on the afternoon of 17th January 2013. He will be remembered for his The next issue of the Cactus Explorer is interest in South American cacti, particularly planned for May 2013. If you have not al - Gymnocalycium. Graham was an active ready told me and would like to be advised member of the Chileans group and made when it is available for download, please trips to South America with Walter Rausch. send me your E-mail address to be added to He was a true cactus enthusiast and will be the distribution list. missed by his many friends. Thank you for your interest and support! 3 The Cactus Explorer ISSN 2048-0482 Number 7 February 2013 NEWS AND EVENTS Fauna & Flora International BCSS Oxford Branch Plant Auction This is a really fun event held only every two years. It is a chance to sell your spare plants and acquire specimens you rarely get the opportunity to buy. We all have plants that have outgrown their space so here is a chance to convert them to cash! The latest issue of Fauna & Flora carries an interesting article by Stuart Paterson about efforts Sunday 14th April 2013 to protect the cacti of Cuba, an island said to have a Recreation Hall, Witney Road, remarkable 33 endemic species, 17 of which are Long Hanborough, (near Witney) OX29 8BJ threatened. Studies and conservation activities have been supported by the British Cactus & Viewing and table sales from 12 noon. Succulent Society. Auction starts at 1p.m. Fauna & Flora International is a partner in the Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP), a collaboration which builds the capacity of early to mid-careers conservationists around the world by providing project funding, training and mentoring. Luisro and his team have been supported by the CLP since 2004. In 2012 they were awarded a Conservation Leadership Award to fund the Cuban Plant Conservation Initiative's national communications campaign and to train local plant Contact: John Watmough , conservationists, among other activities. To learn 139 Church Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 3JS more about this project see Telephone 01865 772709 or http://www.conservationleadershipprogramme. email [email protected] org/ViewProject.asp?ProjectlD=0282312 GC to submit lots or ask for an Auction Catalogue. John Pilbeam is looking for good habitat photos, North West Cactus Mart preferably with flowers, of island species of cacti and succulents around Baja California, as well as Dudleya 27th April 2013 (in bloom and not) and blooming Cochemiea on the 10.30am - 2.30pm Admission free peninsula itself, with publication in mind. email to: St. Thomas More Church Hall, Kirkway, [email protected], or snailmail to 51 Chelsfield Lane, Orpington, Kent, BR5 4HG, United Kingdom. Middleton, Manchester. M24 1PP UK 4 Number 7 February 2013 ISSN 2048-0482 The Cactus Explorer BCSS Zone 6 Convention Saturday 20 April 2013 Wilstone Village Hall, nr.Tring, Hertfordshire HP23 4PE England Speakers Jakub Jilemicky : The Western Cape: Haworthias and other succulents Peter Berresford : Texas/New Mexico: From the Plains to the Mountains Jakub Jilemicky : Succulents of the Eastern Cape Trade Stands Toobees , David Neville & Keith's Plant Books Tickets at £15 (includes tea/coffee/biscuits on arrival, buffet lunch and afternoon tea) are available from David Wilson: Tel: +44(0)1494581020 E-mail: [email protected] Full details can be found at http://www.zone6.bcss.org.uk/Zone_6_Con - ventions.htm The BCSS International Convention. 11th to the 13th July 2014. Stamford Court, University of Leicester, UK. At the same venue as last time but now com - pletely rebuilt with much improved facilities. The structure of the convention will be similar to The 10th IOS Inter-Congress Meeting 2010 with residential and non-residential pack - 10–12 May 2013 ages available. Delegates and traders will be at the Botanical Garden and offering sales of plants, books and sundries. Botanical Museum, Berlin Speakers already booked are Woody Minnich The programme will include lectures and a from the USA; Dr Olwen Grac e from RBGK; tour of the Botanic Garden glasshouses.