Some here: http://www.cactus-art.biz/gallery/Photo ... strous.htm
and here: http://public.fotki.com/PanosS/cristata_-_monstrose/
there's loads here on this German site (click the little red boxes for pics) http://www.wstarke.de/cristate.html

Plants 'created' in cultivation, usually by crossing two plants together to make a hybrid are given non-Latin names, of which "Hobbit" is one. This website: http://www.lapshin.org/succulent/cras-l1.htm says Hobbit is a cross of C. portulacea and O. lactea. Monstrose and cristate plants are...

I'd go for the monstrose form of Austrocylindropuntia subulata

Agree about it being the hobbit, but you'll find it in older books as C. argentea monstrosa or C. portulacea monstrosa. I don't think it's related to C. arborescens.

I'd been looking at it on t'internet and was intrigued to see it lives where almost nothing else will in almost barren Chilean desert, inhospitable even by cactus standards.

I know that people selling Sempervivums have to make a living but I'm always surprised that even though they're so easy to propagate they typically command prices of ?1.50. There are plenty of people selling seed-raised cacti for this sort of money which must represent a much greater investment. htt...

I think you get a refund. They only seem to have realised there was a problem as they started to get orders ready for sending.

I, for my part, wasn't doubting the integrity of the vendor, more the durability of the new name. I've been doing my homework and found the diary of the cactus hunting trip and, specifically, the entry for the collection in question http://www.copiapoa.info/copiapoathon/20030609.htm . Based on the c...

It's kind of difficult because it was said on a mailing list. You can interrogate the database of old posts via this page: http://www.labs.agilent.com/bot/cactus_home . Strangely, the Huntington website hasn't been updated to say this: http://www.huntington.org/BotanicalDiv/ISI2006/catalogorder.html

Ralph Martin's field number database http://ralph.cs.cf.ac.uk/Cacti/fieldno.html confirms it is C. humilis. Cactus & Co website doesn't have any details of No2 journal for this year, yet.