Cactus & Succulent Contest at Royal Flora Expo, Thailand

[stephania]

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

[phil]

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!!

[Dirk Everaerd]

Waw, what can whe say.............nothing I suphose, looking and that all!!!!!

[Trevor]

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 !

[Maria J]

Great photos Stephania, thanks for sharing!!
Absolutely incredible plants which I definitely wouldn't want the job of judging!!

[Guest]

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'

[Vic]

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!

[Roy]

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!

[Julie]

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.

[Chris in Leeds]

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.