Cactus of the Month

[king_hedes]

cool hob
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plant zone 9a
Matt Ivy

[StrUktO]

fantastic job!
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arjen, zone 8

[hob]

November 2009 is now up, with one eye over my shoulder at changing laws over copy write and so on i have added a References section where i can credit information gathered,

[iann]

Is that your new Cleistocactus, Hob
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--ian

[hob]

[daiv]

Excellent choice Hob. It is very good to give attention to plants that are common like that. Lots of people will benefit. You do a good job mixing up the entries!
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All Cacti are succulents, but not all succulents are Cacti

[hob]

woke up early this morning, nice sunny day,shoulder not too painful so.............

another one done
http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16729

that's my second year completed and five years in total (60 pages) soon be enough for a book
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incurable cactoholic
growing rebutia's with a mix of others.

[Peterthecactusguy]

Hob,
you should make it into a book!
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Here's to you, all you insidious creatures of green..er I mean cacti.

[king_hedes]

great job Hob
that would be a great book
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plant zone 9a
Matt Ivy

[hob]

[iann]

I've got one of those

Not so endangered in the wild. It was thought to be possibly extinct due to habitat damage (like the only know habitat is mostly under water!), but new populations have been discovered. Due to the widely separated locations and the large unexplored areas in between, it is likely to be quite common.
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[hob]

[daiv]

Good one Hob. Lots of people will be able to identify with that one.

Don't be shy about using images off the guide at all. All images, are given permission for use on CactiGuide.com and the COTM feature is part of CactiGuide.com. You can even just link to the image directly where it is. No need to save a second image to the server which you probably already know.

In other words I don't give permission to anyone to use images from the site that are not my own on other websites, the forum is as much a part of CactiGuide.com as the genus list. As long as the same credits are listed with the picture, it is A-OK.

Daiv
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All Cacti are succulents, but not all succulents are Cacti

[iann]

The red list is always horribly out of date, as is inevitable with any such bureaucratic endeavour. It can only reflect estimates actually made by workers in the field, followed by a lengthy process of review. I haven't seen any recommendations for a change in status in the recent papers about new populations, and it certainly won't happen without at least one author doing this.

Lithops form a good example. If you look up the red list status of all the Lithops species, you will see that only seven are on the list, with none of them in the two most serious categories. At least one of these species hasn't been located in the wild for a generation and about half the genus consists of single populations that could be wiped out at any time. Some populations have already been documented as destroyed.
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[hob]

ok thanks, i'll edit that out then
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growing rebutia's with a mix of others.