6 new Cylindropuntia and a new Opuntia from Baja

[peterb]

The latest issue of Madroño has Jon Rebman's publication of 6 new Cylindropuntia taxa (subspecies and species) and a new Opuntia from Baja California. Great stuff! There's also an article in there by Root Gorelick about growing cacti in Ottawa, Canada.

Peter

[A. Dean Stock]

Thanks Peter, I think my Madrono subscription is still current. Rebman has been busy and I haven't seen these yet.
Dean

[A. Dean Stock]

Great to see that Jon Rebman has finally published some of the Cylindropuntia research he has been working on for years. Great job. Also, I can now openly refer to my plant of the Baja species Opuntia clarkiorum by name now that it is published. This Opuntia is NOT winter hardy in my area.
Dean

[peterb]

Yes, Dean, Jon really did thorough work as always on these publications. Some of the field work took 20 years. I have been using some of the names already because I saw them somewhere, maybe prematurely in Ted Anderson's book, not sure. I'm particularly interested in the island endemic cedrosensis, of course. Another reason to go back to cedros.

peter