I travelled to Cornwall in 1999 and took the opportunity to visit what was then Westfield Cacti when Ralph was based in Kennford. He was about to move out of the area and the business was closing - it was a mess, more-or-less abandoned. I remember feeling quite sad. It's pretty amazing that he manag...

I would pick out every last crumb of peat (is it?) and all the dead material. Or blast it with a hose. I don't feel I can advise on what to do next due to lack of experience of your conditions but, in ignorance, I would want to reestablish a few roots in a pot before replanting - in the UK I'd be th...

Do you not think it's the same plant, just from the other side?

MatDz wrote: ↑Sun Nov 12, 2023 12:33 pm I hope Dudleya didn't win class 31 (Unless it counts as both Crassula and Echeveria )

It's the same plant as Class 32, 2nd just from the other side, so almost certainly not in the wrong class.

Yes - in the sense that the Society has one every month on https://bcss.org.uk/ it'll be in one of the 'featured' tiles. However, I haven't, and nobody else has, started threads in this section each month. There's nothing to stop anybody doing so if they've anything to say about a genus. I can't say...

I doubt they have any books on cacti at all!
Can't think what your book could be though.

See https://www.cactuspro.com/lecture/Britt ... 46.en.html

Apparently (I haven't seen the first description), Jorge Meyrán named the plant after George Lindsay and his wife . lindsayi - either at species or subspecies level - is, therefore, an error to be corrected, to lindsayorum. I've killed two plants through not keeping it warm enough over winter, I thi...

I think there's room for us to discuss how we might judge plant differently.