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Re: Lists of books and useful pages (info and help wanted, please)

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There are far more books out there than you might imagine, Chris. I could easily add 100 to your list. Here are a few titles well worth adding:

The first one is in Japanese but its excellent for the pictures, even if you cant speak a word of Japanese. The last has English too.
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An alternative for "Vygies: Gems of the Veld" van Jaarsveld, de Villiers Pienaar is the German / French translation published by Ulmer "Aizoaceae" (2004, HB). To ease the ordering of the book it has two ISBN's, somewhat confusing when you order. That books is about twenty euro's instead of 'one hundred something' for Vygies.

There are three recently published books about Mesembs and Lithops, about ten or tweny euro's each. An English/Polish book is "How to Grow Lithops and Other Living Stone Plants" (2018, PB, 130pp) written by Piotr Dzieduszynski. Guessing that a review of that book was written in the MSG bulletin.

If you master the German language, or use a dictionary, you can use these "Mesembs mehr als nur Lithops" (2008, PB, 143pp) written by Achim Hecktheuer and "Lithops - Lebende Steine" (2018, PB, 83pp) written by Bernd Schlosser.

I see that Schulz is mentioned, he and Attila Kapitany have written "Succulents Propagation" (2004, PB, 112pp), containing a lot of hint and tips. But is it for the expert propagator?
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I found this old bookmark I saved ages ago, showing astrophytums in Japan. I shall be looking over it more closely following my Kaktus seed order as it has pictures of the different kikko types. I struggled to find pictures when I was doing the order then accidentally find this a few days after.

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ralphrmartin wrote: Sat Jan 23, 2021 4:53 pm There are far more books out there than you might imagine, Chris. I could easily add 100 to your list. Here are a few titles well worth adding:

The first one is in Japanese but its excellent for the pictures, even if you cant speak a word of Japanese. The last has English too.

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Is the Lobivia booklet any good Ralph? I was too late, got my money refunded as it was sold out.
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Yes, refunded here, too! Not brave enough to try https://www.ebay.de/itm/Lobivia-numer-s ... 3331593831
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habanerocat wrote: Thu Jan 21, 2021 11:03 am I've been looking for a good book on Agaves.
I know A Gallery Of Agaves is out there but it's very expensive.

So I'd be interested to hear of any recommendations here.
My favourite relatively non-technical book on agaves is:

Gregg Starr. Agaves. Living Sculptures for Landscapes and Containers.

It has wonderful habitat shots and is easy reading but very well researched. It does only cover a selection of species that Gregg has actually visited in the field.

However, for a great picture book you can't beat John Pilbeam's, so it's well worth the investment, especially since this is a BCSS publication. :grin: :grin: :grin:
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ralphrmartin wrote: Sat Jan 23, 2021 4:53 pm There are far more books out there than you might imagine, Chris. I could easily add 100 to your list. Here are a few titles well worth adding:

The first one is in Japanese but its excellent for the pictures, even if you cant speak a word of Japanese. The last has English too.
Wow Ralph, I've never heard of the Japanese Echeveria book. How much was this if you don't mind me asking? Also what's the publication date?
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I'm mortified to see that so far no one's mentioned the best ever book on aloes, but I'm far too modest to mention it by name. :grin:

Seriously though, my favourite aloe book out of a very large collection is:

Tom McCoy. The Aloes of Arabia. 2019.

It does only deal with the 50 Arabian aloes, but the habitat shots are the best ever published on aloes. It's also fairly expensive though: I paid £160 including postage from the states. :shock:

Note to Terry on aloe books. Personally I wouldn't recommend the two Reynolds's books unless to true aloe specialists. These books are now way way out of date. The Southern African vol. dates from 1950 so is over 70 years old. Together the two vols. only cover c. 330 spp., so around 200 new species have been published since then, plus a load of revisions.

In support of Reynolds, most of his 83 new species are still recognised today and only a handful have disappeared into synonymy, so his work has shown itself to be of lasting value.

Several separate genera such as Aloidendron and Aloiampelos have also been split off from the true aloes, so the taxonomy has changed a lot too since Reynolds's day.
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Phil_SK wrote: Sun Jan 24, 2021 9:45 am Yes, refunded here, too! Not brave enough to try https://www.ebay.de/itm/Lobivia-numer-s ... 3331593831
Thanks for the link Phil, I've risked it. My PayPal account shows Tomasz Blaczkowski as the seller.
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Colin Walker wrote: Sun Jan 24, 2021 10:08 am I'm mortified to see that so far no one's mentioned the best ever book on aloes, but I'm far too modest to mention it by name. :grin:
I was expecting it to be mentioned when I asked in a separate thread about what is the best modern aloedary. :geek:
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