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Hi,

I'm going back to the alphabet, always a useful source of inspiration, for this month's topic. After a rather dismal week summer seems to be with us again (at any rate in the south-east), with plenty of sun I hope, so the topic for July is

S is for summer, sun and .....

I'll look forward to seeing your pictures.

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Clarification please Sheila. is it to illustrate Summer and Sun or simply any plant or genus beginning with "S"?
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DaveW wrote:Clarification please Sheila. is it to illustrate Summer and Sun or simply any plant or genus beginning with "S"?
I assumed the "and..." indicated that anything suitable beginning with S could be a contender; but I may be wrong. Unfortunately I have very few cacti or succulents whose first or second names begin with that letter. I'll have to think laterally, :wink:
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Hi,

It was supposed to be any plant name beginning with S (genus or specific or cultivar) - I thought there would be quite a few, not necessarily something in flower at the moment.

Or, as Rod suggests, you can think laterally. How about S is for splendid, S is for small, S is for scarlet, or even S is for surprise - something you never thought would flower.

Anything really. I would like some entries though please. It would be embarrassing to be the first person to set a subject which had no entries at all.

Thank you in advance.
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Sheila wrote:...I would like some entries though please. It would be embarrassing to be the first person to set a subject which had no entries at all...
I'm sure I'll manage something, Sheila.
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(Surprise) Frailea castanea
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Hi,

Great some entries. It has occurred to me that you could enter anything you didn't have a specific name for as S is for sp!. Also, for Rod, you could always have S is for survivor (of the dark).

S is for scarlet - people's ideas of scarlet vary so it could be any shade of red. I'm sure there are plenty more ideas out there.

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Sheila wrote:Hi,

Great some entries. It has occurred to me that you could enter anything you didn't have a specific name for as S is for sp!. Also, for Rod, you could always have S is for survivor (of the dark).

S is for scarlet - people's ideas of scarlet vary so it could be any shade of red. I'm sure there are plenty more ideas out there.

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OK, to show willing as I asked.

"S" is for Sulcorebutia.

Sulcorebutia tiraquensis ssp. electracantha.
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Sulcorebutia tarabucoensis ssp. lindae.
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Sulcorebutia patriciae.
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Sulcorebutia purpurea.
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"S" is for small.

Lophophora alberto-vojtechii (the "littlest Lophophora") 5p coin against it.
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"S" is for stellatum.

Gymocalycium stellatum.
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"S" is for saboae.

Mammillaria saboae.
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and lastly "S" is for sanchez-mejoradae.

Mammillaria sanchez-mejoradae.
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