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Post by Lewis_cacti »

wow, amazing plants Craig.. keep them coming :D
That is the best looking Mammillaria i have ever seen.
i'd take one of those M. luethyi in a second.. too bad i can't get them through customs either Paul. Ive never even seen one here. :?
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Paul, I don't think you'll have too much trouble finding one in the UK. Hob, Ian, etc. will probably be able to point you in the right direction.
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OK. do any of you guys have one of these going spare?
Happy to buy or trade my grannie, she aint bad for 86 and still gets about ok. :D
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You would do that, Paul?! :lol:
All for one cactus? I think, you have totally succumbed to cactus mania. :lol: :lol:

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hegar wrote:You would do that, Paul?! :lol:
All for one cactus? I think, you have totally succumbed to cactus mania. :lol: :lol:

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No! Of course not, how could you think that Harald. I am really hurt that you would think that of me. I would want at least two plants. :D
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Post by Craig Fry »

Good luck in finding Mammillaria luethyi
Its pretty rare in cultivation
Mine are cuttings from a graft
Otherwise, I couldn't even find any seed

The photos are from my first plant, but the graft and plant died a couple years ago, so I got another one 2 years ago, which the new rooting cuttings are from.
I'm hoping that they are different plants, so when the second one finally flowers, I can get seed.
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The mammillaria luethyi situation is set to change fairly soon, with several growers producing very large quantities of seed and grafted seedlings, including one Arizona nursery I visited recently.

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daiv wrote:Paul, I don't think you'll have too much trouble finding one in the UK. Hob, Ian, etc. will probably be able to point you in the right direction.
Paul i looked at several places and did'nt see any for sale :? i don't have one myself, not really my thing.
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Miles to Go has 1 inch grafts for $6. For example. Must have been some of the huge crop I saw at Anderson's nursery when I visited last fall.

It's always this way with recently discovered cacti. They are made immediately available to a few collectors, most often through unscrupulous and nefarious means (haha) and then slowly become part of the trade. The same will eventually be the case with Digitostigma caput-medusae. The only exceptions are when a plant is so doggoned hard from seed or difficult in cultivation that it remains rare in the market. Someone was telling me that Yavia cryptocarpa is an example.

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Post by Craig Fry »

Talking about new species, heres my astropyhtum caput-medusae seedlings

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And my other Fave babies, Dinteranthus pole-evansi
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Ariocarpus selection
The big one
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Long turbicles
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Ariocarpus retusus x trigonus,
no aeroles, white flowers from between old turbicles, not from the center
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Standard Ario fissuratus
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Ario fissuratus intermedius, we call it the cats tongue
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And then the retusus X fissuratus
looks like a Haworthia
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A couple of succulents
Avonia quinaria in flower
The buds always make me think "Please feed Me"
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Haworthia truncata cv Lime Green
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Turbinicarpus krainzianus minimus
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We found this plant at the Orange County Cactus Succulent Society camp-out at Anza Borrego, near the McNair Ranch
Its called Pholisma arenarium, a parasitic plant
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Jaw dropping, as always Craig. I love looking at Ariocarpus hybrids. Though the stability/time/patience required must fall into the "watching paint dry" category. :lol:

The Digitostigma seedlings look great. What a wild plant.

I'm actually a big fan of plant parasites and those Pholisma are otherworldly for sure.

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