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V0l.2 of the free journal Xerophilia is available for download as a pdf file. http://xerophilia.ro/
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Very interesting article about astro caput-medusae...
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Hi All,

Thank you John for introducing Xerophilia!

I wasn’t around for some time, partly because a very hectic work schedule and partly because I’m pretty much tied up with a new project: a new quarterly online magazine called Xerophilia (ISSN: 2285 – 3987). It is actually a teamwork: Dag Panco, Valentin Posea (both well-known Romanian cacti-collectors) and yours truly, helped of course by several other contributors. The name has it all: we intend to cover a bit more than the usual C&S – i.e. in our first issue you can read a very interesting article about succulent arboreal ant-plants of. At least we try. For the time being the magazine is bilingual - Romanian / English, but depending on how things work out we might have a Hungarian issue as well (Romania is home for many hundreds of thousands of Hungarians and we cannot ignore this). If all goes well and according to our plans at some stage we will have separate Romanian / Hungarian / English issues… but this is further down the road.

You can read Xerophilia online or download from http://xerophilia.ro/

For any comments, suggestions and critics please write us at xerophilia@xerophilia.ro or eduart.zimer@xerophilia.ro

We started already work on the second issue due by the end of September and we are all very excited with the new things we’re bringing in, including a revised layout. (We’re smart enough to learns from our own mistakes, or at least we love to think so).

Any contribution – articles, reports, travelogues, curiosities, short comments, experiments, or simply pictures, etc. We are in for the long run and this is the last thing we want – to have a magazine written by the editorial team! So, your contribution is highly valuable!

We also intend to promote any type of source or resource for the C&S enthusiast. So, if you wish to promote any event, website, source, product, nursery, you name it, just send us a banner or textbox and we make sure it will be in the next issue.

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Hi All,

I hope you have enjoyed reading our first Xerophilia issue … but time flies so here we are again, three months later, with the second issue having an improved layout (which hopefully you will prefer) . It was a hard work at our end, but we’ve had so much fun! The featured plant is Pelecyphora aselliformis, there is another extremely interesting article on growing Ariocarpus, and much more interesting stuff! A total of 98 pages, over 210 pictures (of which 87 habitat pictures), with over 90% of the pictures being linked to high resolution files. We only hope that you’ll enjoy!

http://xerophilia.ro/

We already started work on the third issue which is due by the 15th of December and we’re all very excited with the improved layout. We also continue to build up a portfolio of different articles, enough for 2 – 3 issues. The reason is that having more articles on hand it becomes much easier to have well balanced and varied issues, interesting a much wider range of readers. In this context we seek for your collaboration: any articles on any type of cacti, succulents and xerophytes, on any subject – be it cultivation issues, travelogues, habitat reports, taxonomy, biology, oddities and curiosities, or whatever you think it might be of interest – is more than welcome!

I’m looking forward to hear back from you.

Thank you,

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Hi,

Xerophilia - the third issue is due on the 15th of December (but maybe we will put it online few days earlier)

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I have read the two first issues and am very impressed, eagerly looking forward to the next issue.It´s to hope that you have time enough to keep the good work up! (tu)
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It's online!

Thank you Thord. We hope you will enjoy this issue as well!

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Yes, number three is online now and it´s a delight as are the other two ! Start reading, gang! (tu)
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Hi All,

Number 4 is just around the corner... it is due online by the end of March, but we will get it out probably again few days in advance:

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I'm not a lover of 'electronic' journals but the content and quality of these are absolutely superb (tu)
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