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Contents 2024 issues

December

The misuse of the name hildewintera and the naming of cactus hybrids

Colin C. Walker

Cleistocctus – an updated summary by Martin Lowry

Graham Evans

Book review

Gymnocalycium cabreraense

Graham Evans

Introducing a new discovery

Dudleya updated

Colin C. Walker

Including details of a new book on Dudleya

Apteranthes burchardii in habitat

David Ilett

An interesting stapeliad from the Canary Islands

A yearning for yellow

Graham Evans

Yellow flowered gymnocalyciums

Caudiciforms and pachycauls

Colin Parker

An introduction to some of these fascinating plants

Puya at the Ventnor Botanic Garden

Chris Kidd

How the collection began and a special hybrid

The genus Weberocereus

Zsolt Varga

An introduction to the genus

Mediterranean gardens

Laurie Poulson

Visiting some spectacular botanic gardens

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September

Paul Spracklin: The Dry Exotic Garden

Sheila Cude

Book review

Some notes on Aeonium tabuliforme

Marco Cristini

The correct name, and the best way to grow this amazing plant

The genus Echinopsis

Phil Crewe

A new look at the genus with some unexpected species'

Aichryson

Colin C. Walker

An introduction to the genus

It's all in the genes

Tracey Coogan

Hybridising echeverias

Hanging hildewinteras

Ed Seeley

An introduction to some of these attractive hybrids

Another look at Adromischus

Tony Roberts

Showing the different forms of some beautiful species

Mary Emily Eaton Botanical Artist

Joseph Shaw

A showcase of some of her work for The Cactaceae

Pseudorhipsalis

Zsolt Varga

An introduction to a little known genus of epiphytic cacti

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June

A brief history of the genus Mammillaria

Charles Staples

Reprinted from the first issue to mark the 10th anniversary of the Cactus and Succulent Review

A succulent plant miscellany

Len Newton

Some amusing facts you may not have known

Haworthia, Tulista and Haworthiops Illustrations

Book review

Together with a new cultivar Haworthia truncata 'Alan'

Haworthia truncata

Alan Rollason

This fascinating plant in habitat

Echeveria agavoides and some of its cultivars

Colin C. Walker

An attractive Echeveria

Aeonium tabuliforme – Home and away

David Ilett

Comparing plants in habitat with those in the greenhouse.

The trouble with space is...there's never enough Part 2

Peter Berresford

More smaller echinocerei

Who would live in a cactus?

Sheila Cude

The answer is a number of birds

Some cacti of Costa Rica

Ian Woolnough

A trip to Costa Rica to see some unusual cacti

The smallest Conophytum

Chris Rodgerson

So which is the smallest?

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March

Muddling Mendoza

Graham Evans

Denmoza rhodacantha in cultivation

Growing Aloidendron 'Hercules'

Darren Hobbs

Growing this magnificent hybrid in South Wales

Mammillaria karwinskiana

Sue Hakala

A superb plant grown in Arizona

Gymnocalycium spegazzinii

Vicky Davies

A number of forms of this popular plant

Daubenya marginata

Brian McDonough

A beautiful South African bulb

Contrasting cotyledons

Colin C. Walker

Including information and pictures on a new description, C. mckayi

The trouble with space is...there's never enough

Peter Berresford

Some of the smaller echinocerei

Sansevierias in Tanzania

Al Laius

A short safari to see newly-desccribed and undescribed species

Springbok back to Johannesburg

Richard Torr

More of the South African trip to locations easily accessible by any tourist

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