Hi All, last week I was a judge in Cactus & Succculent Contest at the Royal Flora Expo
in Chiangmai, North Thailand. So I'ld like to share you some photos here.
While registering and grouping plants.
Ready for judging.
Take a look closer...
Judging time...
I'm scoring... "That big Ubelmania Umm...9.20 point ?"
And the grand prize...
Cactus : Mammillaria marksiana, nearly 2 feet in diameter!
Succulent : Euphorbia cylindrifolia var. tuberifera
Cactus & Succulent Contest at Royal Flora Expo, Thailand
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Re: Cactus & Succulent Contest at Royal Flora Expo, Thailand
Hi Stephania, looks a fantastic show The plants are well displayed and there are some lovely specimens. I particularly like the Ariocarpus and Astrophytums lovely!!
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Waw, what can whe say.............nothing I suphose, looking and that all!!!!!
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Re: Cactus & Succulent Contest at Royal Flora Expo, Thailand
Some of those plants are crazy !!
One of our club members gave a slide show at the last meeting of the plants at a market in Thailand, I can't remember it's name but it apparently has one day a week where it specializes in plants and it looked huge!! I couldn't believe the plants - Arios, Astro's even odd Euphorbias on grafts and the prices would just make you cry...
The Thais certainly know how to grow and breed/hybridize them. I would have thought the humidity etc would spell certain doom to Arios and A. asterias like plants...
Thanks for the pics !
One of our club members gave a slide show at the last meeting of the plants at a market in Thailand, I can't remember it's name but it apparently has one day a week where it specializes in plants and it looked huge!! I couldn't believe the plants - Arios, Astro's even odd Euphorbias on grafts and the prices would just make you cry...
The Thais certainly know how to grow and breed/hybridize them. I would have thought the humidity etc would spell certain doom to Arios and A. asterias like plants...
Thanks for the pics !
Trevor
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With a 'Downunder' collection of Cacti and Succulents in Melbourne, Australia.
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Re: Cactus & Succulent Contest at Royal Flora Expo, Thailand
Great photos Stephania, thanks for sharing!!
Absolutely incredible plants which I definitely wouldn't want the job of judging!!
Absolutely incredible plants which I definitely wouldn't want the job of judging!!
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The only problem with this system of posting URLs instaead of the actual Photo is that I cannot see any of them as they are all 'Red Xed out'
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Re: Cactus & Succulent Contest at Royal Flora Expo, Thailand
Hi Stephania,
Looks like it was a great show, some pretty impressive specimens and some astounding Astros. Great pics!! That Euphorbia is rather strange.
Thanks for sharing!
Looks like it was a great show, some pretty impressive specimens and some astounding Astros. Great pics!! That Euphorbia is rather strange.
Thanks for sharing!
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Very interesting but I don't think I will be planting any Ario's as part of a bowl garden:-) Thank you for posting these pictures even though I'm drooling!
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Re: Cactus & Succulent Contest at Royal Flora Expo, Thailand
Beautiful photos, Stephania. It must have been very hard to choose the best of all.
I especially love those variegated ones! And the cristata which is only half variegated... I never knew that could happen.
I especially love those variegated ones! And the cristata which is only half variegated... I never knew that could happen.
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Re: Cactus & Succulent Contest at Royal Flora Expo, Thailand
Hi Stephania great pictures and plants, were you one of the judges or just making a wants list? as you can add a lot of those plants to mine.
Chris
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Interested in - TURBINICARPUS (Always looking for plants I don't have)
TEPHROCACTUS AND RELATED SPECIES
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