Description
JUNE 2019 CONTENTS
- Editor’s comments by Al Laius
- Hilde Winter and friends by Peter Cupial-Jones
- Tuberous crassulas by Terry Smale
- Some flowering cacti in Peru by Ian Woolnough
- Post Focus, an easy route to sharper photographs by Tom Radford
- A new species of Brachystelma (Apocynaceae) from Chitipa District, Malawi by Ralph G Peckover
- Presidential potted plants – Borzicactus sextonianus by Colin C Walker
- Splitter or lumper – it is probably your personality! by Malcolm Hatfield
- In my greenhouse by Andy Palmer
- Leuchtenbergia principis – the strangest cactus by Juan Migual Artigas Azas
- A passion for Adenium and other succulents by Ravi Ivaturi
- Understanding nature’s numbering system in relation to cacti and succulents by David Bruno and Peter Williams
- A new shrubby species of Aloe in Kenya with leaf exudate becoming purple by Leonard E Newton & Mwadime Nyange
- Discovering BEF pots by Christopher Leather
- Top tips 3
- CactusTalk
Front cover: Although acquired under the name Stapelia curtisii, it is generally accepted to be a synonym of Orbea variegata. it is endemic to the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Despite O. variegata probably being the most common, and first stapeliad, grown by beginners to the hobby, its flowers are nevertheless impressive and long-lived, but a little smelly if they are exposed to sunlight! (Photo: John Ellis)