Plants and people are still amazing in Auckland, but things have changed over the 18 years I am living here. Unfortunately most of the true collectors don't show up at the Auckland show.

No, you didn't see it all John. You criticize a small typing error on my part (a word replaced in vain, indeed - and there may be more of such errors in this issue) without knowing the mutilation of the plant names I'm talking about. I referred to dilettantism at the level of a group of "exhibi...

Hi All,

Carpophyma 3 - https://www.dropbox.com/s/wx81vnzkjzbmq ... 0.pdf?dl=0

We are available now.

Cheers,

Eduart

Hi, I think you ask a but too much. Blossfeldia betanzos Knize (KK2135) is a numen nudum. Blossfeldia liliputana (ssp.?) pedicellata v. tominensis (KK 1525) have not heard about. There is a Blossfeldia liliputana var. pedicellata (Ritter) Krainz in The Plant List http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/s...

Hi, I think you ask a but too much. Blossfeldia betanzos Knize (KK2135) is a numen nudum. Blossfeldia liliputana (ssp.?) pedicellata v. tominensis (KK 1525) have not heard about. There is a Blossfeldia liliputana var. pedicellata (Ritter) Krainz in The Plant List http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/s...

Hi All, Soon online - Carpophyma 3 Eduart Zimer - Satisfying the Crowd! Eduart Zimer - CSSNZ Auckland Show 2019 Attila Kapitany - Desert Jewels: the Australian Calandrinia Elton Roberts - Mammillaria caerulea R.T. Craig Eduart Zimer - Ulex europaeus : a wicked trespasser in New Zealand Carpophyma 3 ...

Grows very long spines - see this image from CSSNZ Auckland Show 2012

Tony R wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 7:37 am Great plant, Jean. Is this S. calcareum 'Extra'?

Yes, it is Sempervivum calcareum 'Extra'.

Hi Christer, I can't say anything about keeping Lithops in the dark in winter... never tried. But, as Terry wrote - you have to adjust the light levels in spring. They always are a bit sensitive to sudden light exposure. Lithops does well during winter with temperatures between 0 and +5 C. (You can ...