Very interesting, Echinocereus engelmannii

eulaspiegel wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 5:15 pm Hi and welcome to the forum! Do you know the species of plant in your photo?

Orostachys fimbriatus Chinese called “瓦松（wa song）”

Hi everyone, great to be on this forum. I'm a newbie who is not very new

2016.11 Photo in Nanjing,China

Regarding my remark on exotics, few of us bother to grow our own native species, we always find those from other parts of the world more interesting through being unfamiliar. In the 1960's long before CITES, John Donald the British Rebutia expert, now long dead, told me he had in the past swapped s...

ok, i see, it could be because of language differences

I've heard of the China Cactus and Succulent Union.which as far as I know is an organization of merchants who don't represent enthusiasts, just a subset of sellers. There are not many types of succulent in China. Due to climate reasons, there are about 200-300 species of sedum in mainland China, an...

Truth is you don't grow your own "weeds", just other countries as exotics! :D A quote from the preamble of that BCSS ZOOM talk mentioned. "The Chinese Cactus and Succulent Union is the first national Society for cactus and succulent enthusiasts in China. It was founded in 2017 by the...

You can imagine Britain in 1850~1900,There must have been a lot of damage to wild plants back then.it is difficult to convince enthusiasts to reduce their fanaticism about some plants. Britain in 1850-1900 was full of newly collected wild plants, many of them from China. We have destroyed much of o...

I don't think what you said is accurate, Many people like grow from seed or bring on plants through their small stages.like to spend energy on the plants themselves. Of course.some people just like buy and buy. l think that because of them too young, generally less than 40,and they did not get compr...

The Chinese too. A few years ago one published a picture of quite a few bare root obviously just recently collected Aztekium valdezii on another Forum which had just been described and was amazed at the negative reaction he got, therefore quickly disappeared. Different countries have different opin...