MAY 2007 CACTUS COURIER Newsletter of the Palomar Cactus and Succulent Society
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BULLETIN MAY 2007 CACTUS COURIER Newsletter of the Palomar Cactus and Succulent Society Volume 53, Number 5 April 2007 The Meeting is the 3rd Saturday!! MAY 19, 2007 “Veterans Memorial Building” 230 Park Ave, Escondido (Immediately East of the Senior Center, Same Parking Lots) There is construction in our usual room. NOON ! “Intergrated Pest Management” HEALTHY GARDEN – HEALTHY HOME Representatives from the Healthy Garden – Healthy Home program, including several UC Master Gardeners and the UCCE San Diego County IPM Program Representative, Scott Parker, will facilitate a workshop on Integrated Pest Management (IPM). IPM, a scientifically based approach for pest management, incorporates cultural, mechanical, biological and chemical Aphid options as part of an overall pest management program. The primary focus of an IPM program is to utilize a non-toxic or least toxic approach in addressing pest control concerns. During this workshop, Ants, a very common home and garden pest in San Diego County, will be used to demonstrate the proper implementation of an IPM approach. However, additional topic related to cactus and succulents such as Aphids, Aloe Mite, Mealy Bugs, Agave Weevil, and Damping Off Disease will be discussed. Ladybug on the job! Aloe Mite (Yuck!) Wasp on Scale! Go, Team, Go! Cochineal on Opuntia (We have this in the Garden!) Mealy Bugs. How sad! Cochineal Scale Black Scale, Sooty Mildew BOARD MEETING • PLANT SALES • BRAG PLANTS • EXCHANGE TABLE The Board Meeting will be moved due to the construction. REFRESHMENTS Jean O’Daniel Reese Brown Red Bernal Mike Regan Britta Miller Vicki Martin Plant(s) of the Month This month we are having two different groups of plants, Sansevieria and Dudleya. Genus Sansevieria Genus Dudleya S. trifasciata D. brittonii About 40 species of plants found in the southwestern U.S. and Baja California in Mexico. Also, on several islands off both California and Baja. They are succulent rosettes of the Cotyledon family. Their color ranges from green to white, depending on the amount of S. pinguicula white powdery wax the species produces for sun protection. They usually grow on steep slopes or crevices 70 species of flowering plants found in the in rock faces which provide excellent drainage. They need tropical and subtropical Old World. They are herbaceous full sun in coastal areas, but light shade in warmer inland to shrubby succulent perennials from 20 cm to 3 m tall, areas. There are only two species that seem to tolerate the often in clumps forming from spreading rhizomes. The heat of Arizona. They are winter growers and come out of flowers are greenish-white, produced on a simple or dormancy in late fall. They do most of their growth in late occasionally branched raceme. The fruit is usually a red winter and several species will not tolerate summer water. or orange berry with a smooth surface, containing a single Propagation: best from seed sewn in the fall after the seed. They are usually xerophytic in habitat but can summer heat is over. Cuttings are best rooted in the tolerate a wide variety of growing conditions, wet or dry, winter in protected damp (not wet) soil after the cutting but do not like cold. Sansevieria trifasciata and its has dried for at least three days. DO NOT COLLECT numerous cultivars (200+) account for the plants called WILD PLANTS. Several species are threatened by habitat 'Mother in Laws Tongue' or 'snake plant' and is the source destruction (mostly housing development and road of the vast majority of Sansieverias sold as house plants. construction). Sansevieria species are quite diverse with some having single leaves, double leaves or multi-leaf rosettes growing from rhizomes. Some have flat leaves, others round- cylindrical leaves. Not to mention cardboard like, rigid leaves with beautiful stripes, bandings, and or striations. They can be propagated from seed but are more often grown from cuttings (evan a single leaf). D. lanceolata D. arizonica If you have special plants, especially if they are in flower, please bring them and show them off. Many Dudleyas are in bloom right now and the flower anatomy is crucial to identfying the species. 2007 Meeting Schedule Southland Cactus Calendar 19 May Joslyn Center May 20th NOTE ! ! ! 3rd Saturday ! ! Huntington Plant Sale 10am - 5pm at the Huntington 23 June Joslyn Center Botanical Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA. 28 July Palomar Garden Info 626-405-2160, www.huntington.org 25 August Quail Garden 22 September Joslyn Center 27 October Joslyn Center 17 November Joslyn Center NOTE ! ! ! 3rd Saturday ! ! 15 December Joslyn Center NOTE ! ! ! 3rd Saturday ! ! May 20th Epiphyllum Society Show & Sale, Los Angeles County Arboretum, Arcadia, CA. Info 310-831-1209 Jun 2nd & 3rd San Diego Cactus & Succulent Society Show & Sale, Palomar Cactus & Succulent Balboa Park, RM 101, San Diego, CA. Info 619-477-4779 Society June 29th – July 1st P.O. Box 840, Escondido, CA 92033 CSSA Annual Show & Sale. Huntington Botanical Gardens, 1151 Oxford Rd, San Marino, CA. Info: 626- Membership Application 405-2160 or 2277. Plant sales start June 30 – July 1. The show opens on June 30 – July 1. Open to the public. I/We wish to join/renew membership in the Palomar Cactus & Succulent Society $15.00 Single Membership $20.00 Dual Membership (Same Address) (1/2 price after June 30th) Name Phone Garden Days Dick Henderson Address May th City State Zip The attendees on May 5 were Dick Henderson, Rock & Gary Nelson, Carols Daub, and Susan Snow. Make checks payable to: THANK YOU! “Palomar Cactus & Succulent Society” P.O. Box 840, Escondido, CA 92033 The Garden Committee will meet the first Saturday in June (the 2nd) and will concentrate on cleaning, repairing, and widening the access paths of the Garden in preparation for our picnic in July. Our current plan is to provide a written plan to allow the Campus Police to open the Garden to teachers of the College for their classes. The police will close and lock the gates after each class. They will patrol the front of the Garden on an hourly basis. We plan to implement this procedure in August for fall classes. Safer Oil Spray Damage – BE CAREFUL! The next Garden Meeting will be June 2nd from 11 am to 2 pm Class # 2 – Ferocactus, Echinocereus, Echinocactus 2007 Members Plant Show Winners 1. Echinocereus fendleri v. kuenzleri Peter Walkowiak All the members who brought plants were 2. Echinocereus viereckii Peter Walkowiak winners! Novice 2. Echinocereus pectinata v. rubrispinus Best in Show David Solomon Class # 3 – Echinopsis, Notocactus, Parodia, Gymnocalycium, et al. 1. Lobivia winteriana Peter Walkowiak 2. Gymnocalycium andreae Peter Walkowiak Rudy Lime – Fouquieria fasciculata Best Cactus Class # 4 – Any Cereus Types, Including Columnar Echinopsis 1. Pilosocereus calciolia Andrew Wilson 2. Trichocereus nigricans Andrew Wilson Class # 5 – Miniatures – Rebutias, Turbinocarpus 1. Rebutia flavistyla Peter Walkowiak 2. Sulcorebutia ranschii Peter Walkowiak Class #6 – Epiphyllum, Selenicereus, Rhipsalis 1. Rhipsalidopsis gaertneri Peter Walkowiak Peter Walkowiak – Echinocereus fendleri v. kuenzleri Class # 8 - All Other Genera 1. Copiapoa humilis Peter Walkowiak 2. Neochilenia negrispina Peter Walkowiak Best Succulent DIVISION II - OTHER SUCCULENTS Class # 9 – WOODY STEM PLANTS, including: Adansonia, Alluaudia, Bombax, Bursera, Commiphora, Decaryia, Didiera, Fouquieria, Idria, Pachycormas, Operculicarya 1. Sesamthamnos lugardii Peter Walkowiak 1. Fouquieria fasciculata Rudy Lime 2. Bombax elypticum Reese Brown 2. Brachychiton rupestris Red Bernal Reese Brown – Euphorbia paulianii Class # 10 – SUCCULENT ROOT PLANTS, including: Cucurbits, Fockea, Gerrardanthus, Ipomoea, Mestoklema, Seyrigia, Trichodiadema, Xerosicyos DIVISION I - CACTUS 1. Crinum cybister Andrew Wilson 2. Pacypodium bispinosum Peter Walkowiak Class # 1 – Mammillaria 1. M. matudae Peter Walkowiak Novice 2. M. plumosa Phyllis Flechsig 2. Gerrardanthus macrorhizus Lorie Johansen Class # 11 – SUCCULENT STEM PLANTS, including: Adenium, Brighamia, Cissus, Cyphostemma, Pachypodium 1. Adenium arabicum v. compactum Peter Walkowiak 1. Adenium multiform Rudy Lime 2. Brighamia insignis Phyllis Flechsig 2. Pacypodium catipes Peter Walkowiak Class # 12 – Agave, Nolina, Yucca Class # 21 – Bromeliads including: Deuterocohina (formerly 1. Calibanus hookeri Richard Henderson Abromeitiella), Dyckia, Hechtia, Orthophytum, Puya 2. Agave victoria regina Reese Brown 1. Dychia fostereana Jean O’Daniel Class # 13 - Aloes 1. Titanopsis spec. Peter Walkowiak 1. Aloe buhrii Andrew Wilson 2. Gibbeaum album Andrew Wilson 2. Aloe porphyrostachys Phyllis Flechsig Class # 24 - All Other Genera including Compositae Novice 1. Bowiea volubilis Rudy Lime 2. Aloe bakerii Lorie Johansen 2. Plectranthus ernestii Peter Walkowiak Class # 25 – Miniature Plants, Any Genus 1. ?? (no plant name!) Jean O’Daniel 2. Aeonium sedifolium Rudy Lime Class # 15 - Gasterias, Sanseverias, Astroloba 1. Sanseveria kokocrater Jean O’Daniel Class # 26 – Any Variegated Plants 2. Sanseveria arborescens Jean O’Daniel 1. Aeonium decorum Gloria Kendall 2. Sanseveria pearsonii Richard Henderson 2. Portulacaria afra variegata Rudy Lime Class # 16 - Euphorbiaceae – Tall Forms Class # 27 – Grafted Plants of any Succulent Class 1. E. paulianii Reese Brown 1. Ficus palmeri Rudy Lime 2. E. millottii Reese Brown 2. E. genandiana Peter Walkowiak Novice 2. Euphorbia lactea Crest Lorie Johansen Class # 16 - Euphorbiaceae – Short Forms 1. E. gottlebei Peter Walkowiak 1. E. decaryi Peter Walkowiak DIVISION III