Thanks Karl and Ralph. Fascinating!

we must remember that "species" concept is just a human invention, and sometimes it is in good agreement with how nature works, and sometimes it is not

. Great quote

Wow! Great series of very thoughtful posts! Lots of reference to genera. I’m also intrigued by how species even within same genus can morph taxonomically. My rudimentary understanding of a unique species is that it differs from other species by generally not being able to interbreed between species ...

New to this forum and BCSS. HI. Trying to get my head around taxonomy. Have been looking at Llifle.com. Seems a great resource. But am puzzled re names. For example as far as I can see ppl refer to Domino cactus as [i]Echinopsis subdenudata[/i]. But on Llife it says Accepted scientific name is [i]Ec...

Can you advise: where is Edenbridge? Thanks

Hi. Just checking in. Joined BCSS in June and finally getting round to exploring the forum. Looks good!