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by Phil_SK
Mon Dec 09, 2024 7:35 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Cactus and Succulent Review
Replies: 10
Views: 570

Re: Cactus and Succulent Review

Yes, unless we know the full history/parentage of a cultivar then we're a bit stuck! Which is why HWH will never die - too many are a bit of a mystery, especially if open pollination has played a part in things.
by Phil_SK
Mon Dec 09, 2024 6:54 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Cactus and Succulent Review
Replies: 10
Views: 570

Re: Cactus and Succulent Review

Surely if these are being generated (and especially if hybrids are fertile) then this suggests it is time for some 'lumping'? It has been done (based on molecular studies rather than hybridisation trials) within the last decade, with Harrisia, Arthrocereus, Leucostele, Cleistocactus, Mila ...
by Phil_SK
Sat Dec 07, 2024 9:37 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Cactus and Succulent Review
Replies: 10
Views: 570

Re: Cactus and Succulent Review

Is that in one of his Cactologia Phantastica? I don't think I've got that edition (I have 1-7). × Chamaezicactus is an older name, from 2003, for a Paulo Panarotto hybrid they called × Chamaezicactus cintiae (I have a strange chamaelobivia called 'cintia' which I wonder might be this - I know it's a ...
by Phil_SK
Sat Dec 07, 2024 12:46 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Cactus and Succulent Review
Replies: 10
Views: 570

Re: Cactus and Succulent Review

I'm only just getting stuck into this today. I'm pleased to see Colin Walker taking hildewintera by the scruff of the neck and manoeuvring it towards the exit - good riddance! I'm surprised that he places 'Andre Mora' in × Cleistoborzicactus , however, as I think 'Helm's Neue' is a hybrid of ...
by Phil_SK
Mon Nov 11, 2024 4:56 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Schlumbergera lutea ssp. bradei (typo corrected in title) Solved
Replies: 13
Views: 1300

Re: Schlumbergera lutea ssp. bradei (typo corrected in title) Solved

I've fixed it in the first post so it'll be right for replies from now on, I think.
by Phil_SK
Tue Oct 29, 2024 4:35 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Gymnocalycium 2 IDs please
Replies: 2
Views: 194

Re: Gymnocalycium 2 IDs please

G. mihanovichii has yellow-green flowers that don't open much. G. friedrichii (which, as an aside, we've been told wasn't validly published and should be called G. stenopleurum, only now it seems it is valid) has white or pink flowers that open a bit more. So I'd say yours are G. friedrichii.
by Phil_SK
Tue Oct 29, 2024 4:30 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Conophytum puzzle
Replies: 5
Views: 362

Re: Conophytum puzzle

I've watched some of the youtube videos from Mesa Garden's channel and the place is a mess - such a mess that it can't have only recently become a mess. If anything it looks like things are getting better.
by Phil_SK
Sun Oct 13, 2024 3:42 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Updated seed lists
Replies: 716
Views: 206194

Re: Updated seed lists

Aiko wrote: Tue Oct 01, 2024 10:18 pm Also SuccSeed from Sweden has had an update: www.succseed.com
It has also reopened now.
by Phil_SK
Wed Oct 02, 2024 5:40 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Updated seed lists
Replies: 716
Views: 206194

Re: Updated seed lists

...but hasn't reopened yet.