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In order to try and keep the Forum a safe place for BCSS Members and other cacti and succulent enthusiasts of all ages, everyone who registers is checked. If you are a BCSS Member and include your membership number, this is easy, because we can just look you up in the database. If you are not a BCSS Member, then we rely on the data you provide. If we can't find any traces by a brief online search, your account will be placed "on hold" until you get in touch with us by email and ask for Forum account approval.
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- Wed Oct 02, 2024 5:40 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Updated seed lists
- Replies: 709
- Views: 201632
Re: Updated seed lists
...but hasn't reopened yet.
- Mon Sep 23, 2024 5:28 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Cactus World
- Replies: 10
- Views: 600
Re: Cactus World
Placing members in the Forum's BCSS members' usergroup - to make it black - is done manually at a user's request. There's no easy way to marry up a list of lapsed members with the usergroup, so former members almost always stay in the group. It was an aspiration when the new website was made that ...
- Fri Sep 20, 2024 9:41 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Cactus World
- Replies: 10
- Views: 600
Re: Cactus World
There have been three. Double-check you're definitely a member and then contact Simon (membership secretary).
- Fri Sep 13, 2024 8:05 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: "Cleistocactus x": an unnamed Hildewintera-style hybrid
- Replies: 6
- Views: 271
Re: "Cleistocactus x": an unnamed Hildewintera-style hybrid
Borzicactus icosagonus subsp. roseiflorus has a very similar flower - probably that crossed with a white 'echinopsis' would give a plant similar to this seen here. 'Otto Schultz' is of similar parentage (though the body is different).
- Sat Aug 31, 2024 11:33 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Turbinicarpus first flower
- Replies: 9
- Views: 233
Re: Turbinicarpus first flower
Cactus can't be used as a genus - it's been a nomen rejiciendum since 1905.
- Tue Aug 06, 2024 2:50 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Ferels in Queensland, Australia
- Replies: 7
- Views: 243
Re: Ferels in Queensland, Australia
Hi Dennis, I've joined the three topics together (just need to remember how to fix the title). Hopefully it'll be easier for us all to follow in one. Phil, moderator
- Sun Jul 21, 2024 9:53 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Botany goes Woke?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1001
Re: Botany goes Woke?
It isn't affected.ralphrmartin wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2024 8:28 pmBut the place itself still seems to be called Kaffir Drift (at least, I can find a place with that name on Google Maps). So if the plant is named after a place, and its name hasn't changed, how will that work?Herts Mike wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2024 12:40 pm There goes Haworthia reinwardtii v kaffirdriftensis then...
- Sun Jul 21, 2024 6:22 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Botany goes Woke?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1001
Re: Botany goes Woke?
The Nature article misreports the change slightly, if the proposal went through as it was originally written, so Erythrina caffra will become Erythrina afra, not Erythrina affra. Eradicating them can be easiest achieved by treating them as orthographical variants that are to be corrected by removing ...
- Sun Jul 21, 2024 3:58 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Botany goes Woke?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1001
Re: Botany goes Woke?
According to the BBC this morning it has been decided to alter valid historical botanical names like kaffir as they are now considered racist. Will that also apply to aboriginum too and any more existing names relating to ethnicity? No, it applies only to caffrum, cafra, cafrorum etc. It's being ...
- Tue Jul 16, 2024 9:09 pm
- Forum: Small Opuntias (Tephrocactus Study Group)
- Topic: Maihuenia poeppigii
- Replies: 20
- Views: 983
Re: Maihuenia poeppigii
I haven't seen the name blonei before but it and fulvicoma are specimens of Cumulopuntia boliviana. The rauhi is Maihueniopsis minuta; there is a well-known form that goes around with the collection number Rauh 65245, which may have been corrupted to give the name that came with your plant.