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Opuntia Book

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Can anyone name a good book in or out of print only on Opuntia family. I there a Bible as such ? Roger Mann Thank you. :cool:
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The mostly North American genus Opuntia or the wider subfamily Opuntioideae?
Phil Crewe, BCSS 38143. Mostly S. American cacti, esp. Lobivia, Sulcorebutia and little Opuntia
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I am looking for a book on large padded and also on Tephros, maybe one or two books. Thanks Roger Mann
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There are a couple on the small Tephro type Opuntia's, but one is now out of print I think.

http://keithsplantbooks.co.uk/details.a ... dge&prev=Y

Also found this.

http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/viewtop ... 27&t=26618

Looks as though Daiv still stocks it, but don't know the postage cost from USA to UK.

http://www.exoticplantbooks.com/cactus_only_search/

http://www.exoticplantbooks.com/help/

You can also find information on the Tephro Study Group website dealing with all small Opuntia's. It is now free to join since they became a web based society so have ceased charging a subscription.

http://tephro.com/index.php/the-journal ... title.html

http://tephro.com/

I believe the Tephro Study Group are also on Facebook.
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Yes, the TSG is on facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/609707212454078/ and has it's own somewhat moribund website tephro.com/ but there's some good stuff at http://tephro.com/index.php/the-journal ... title.html

Two books you can look at as pdf files: https://cactuspro.com/biblio/en:leightonboyceiliff and https://cactuspro.com/biblio/en:kiessling . I often refer to Iliff's run through of all the old unintelligible names in http://www.newcactuslexicon.org/other_t ... iodeae.htm which you can sometimes find 'on offer'. There's a "Further Studies..." too.
There's this article https://cactuspro.com/biblio/en:kieslin ... untioideae though it has its flaws. Vol 44 page 61 (of the pdf) of https://cactuspro.com/biblio/en:csjgb has a decent article on Pterocactus.

For thoughts on the phylogeny of most of the South American Opuntioideae see http://opuntiads.com/records/Molecular% ... untias.pdf [the pdf].

For the true Opuntia, I tend to rely on https://www.opuntiads.com/ and there's a busy fb group that's principally for these, too https://www.facebook.com/groups/169593409746097/
Phil Crewe, BCSS 38143. Mostly S. American cacti, esp. Lobivia, Sulcorebutia and little Opuntia
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