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March 2017 - Something from your favourite genus

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 8:00 pm
by Chris L
March 2017 - Something from your favourite genus. Which genus is most represented in your collection?

Re: March 2017 - Something from your favourite genus

Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2017 8:30 am
by jfabiao
I can't decide on a favourite genus, but I do have a lot of Turbinicarpus and keep sowing new species/varieties/populations each year. This is one plant I didn't sow and not one of the best looking, but when it blooms it lights up the greenhouse.
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Re: March 2017 - Something from your favourite genus

Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2017 12:43 pm
by DaveW
Favourite genus. I guess I should not put in anything other than Eriosyce sensu Kattermann then, although a lot of other genera are close runners up. I don't think Eriosyce and the rest are closely related, so still use Neoporteria sensu Donald & Rowley (1966) for them.

Neoporteria floccosa
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Neoporteria carrizalensis RMF 279
Eriosyce carrizalensis RMF 279.jpg
Neoporteria chilensis, red flowered form.
Eriosyce chilensis2.jpg
Fred Kattermann calls this pilispinus, but Roger Ferryman insists it is Neoporteria pulchellus.
Eriosyce pilispinus.jpg
The black spined Thelocephala Esmeralda AWC 454 (flowers in habitat vary from white/yellow to reddish)
esmeraldana-AWC-454.jpg
Thelocephala esmeraldana FK 795 clustering brown spined form.
esmeraldana-FK-795.jpg

Re: March 2017 - Something from your favourite genus

Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2017 4:18 pm
by Jim_Mercer
I could use same plant as last month as Crassulas seem to dominate my "collection"
Crassula Celia
Crassula Celia
Crassula ovata 'Puff'
Crassula ovata 'Puff'
Crassula tecta
Crassula tecta

Re: March 2017 - Something from your favourite genus

Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2017 11:42 pm
by Liz M
I don't have anything in flower or cacti but here are some succulents with great structural form.
Aeonium percaneum which is almost shperical
Aeonium percaneum which is almost shperical
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Aeonium simsii
Aeonium simsii
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Aeonium aureum
Aeonium aureum
Agave victoria-reginae
Agave victoria-reginae
Agave potatorum
Agave potatorum

Re: March 2017 - Something from your favourite genus

Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2017 9:10 am
by DaveW
I like the monochrome one Liz and I don't normally like monochrome (or Other Succulents), seeing the world with "coloured eyes". :shock:

Re: March 2017 - Something from your favourite genus

Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2017 9:49 am
by Liz M
Thank you, Dave.

Re: March 2017 - Something from your favourite genus

Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2017 10:59 am
by Tony R
DaveW wrote:I like the monochrome one Liz and I don't normally like monochrome (or Other Succulents), seeing the world with "coloured eyes". :shock:
I would give it a huge LIKE too (tu) , Liz, if we had a LIKE Button. :wink:

Re: March 2017 - Something from your favourite genus

Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2017 9:19 pm
by Liz M
Thank you Tony. It's good to know that others can appreciate something that differs from the pictures that are normally put here. This is a monthly photo competition and it is good to have something that is a little different.
The LIKE button is a must. There have been several of us who have requested it over the years.

Re: March 2017 - Something from your favourite genus

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 7:38 am
by Chris L
I am going to pick Liz M as the winner with the B&W Aeonium aureum (tu).

If we had a like button the winner could be chosen by everyone, much like we do with our mini-shows at our branch.