Front cover: Frailea castenea This widespread species from southern Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and northern Uruguay is popular with collectors and easily grown from seed. Fraileas don't often open their flowers, but you stand the best chance of seeing them with their gorgeous, golden flowers open in the heat of high summer, after a watering early in the day so that the humidity is high, and even better if the weather itself is thundery and sultry. Mid-afternoon is when you are most likely to find them open. Photo: Marlon Machado.
Back cover: Ferocactus cylindraceus A big favourite among the barrel cacti for the colourful, yellowish to reddish, flattened and contorted spines. Football-sized plants like this are capable of flowering, but more mature, larger plants are more likely to perform. Tall, old plants are impressive, but lose their charm somewhat as the older spines become dull and turn greyish. More pictures and a good account of this and other species may be found in the Society's handbook on Ferocactus by John Pilbeam and Derek Bowdery. Photo: Roy Thackeray, May 2004, in the Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California.
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