What happened to it?
He used to have a website: www.melocactus.net/ that does no longer seem to exist.
What happened to Gérard Delanoy's national melocactus collection?
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Re: What happened to Gérard Delanoy's national melocactus collection?
Looking at Wayback Machine (web.archive.org), it appears to have been taken down some time between May and November 2014.
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Re: What happened to Gérard Delanoy's national melocactus collection?
was this the collection that went to Kew?
Featured in the special conservation issue of the journal maybe, or possibly some other issue?
Hopefully someone with a better memory will be along shortly....
Featured in the special conservation issue of the journal maybe, or possibly some other issue?
Hopefully someone with a better memory will be along shortly....
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Re: What happened to Gérard Delanoy's national melocactus collection?
Good memory, Rob. The "Kew" melocactus collection was featured in the Conservation issue (2007, Vol. 25 supplement) but this was the Klaus Hättich collection.
I visited this amazing set of plants a couple of times in the Noughties:
This one fascinated me as a 'propagator'. Did this originate from a seed that germinated in the cephalium?
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Re: What happened to Gérard Delanoy's national melocactus collection?
An email address is given in viewtopic.php?t=73509&start=55 you could see if it works...
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Re: What happened to Gérard Delanoy's national melocactus collection?
That is quite something Tony, fascinates me too and I have never grown Melocactus.Tony R wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2019 7:43 amGood memory, Rob. The "Kew" melocactus collection was featured in the Conservation issue (2007, Vol. 25 supplement) but this was the Klaus Hättich collection.
I visited a this amazing set of plants a couple of times in the Noughties:
2007_04_21 Melocactus 2.JPG
This one fascinated me as a 'propagator'. Did this originate from a seed that germinated in the cephalium?
2007_04_21 Melocactus 7.JPG
Regards Keith.
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