What IS new?
Or unusual.
Or off the beaten path.
Or if you could go into a lab and Frankenstein a creation, what would it look like?
I would make a clustering columnar with the knobs and tufts of a Loph koehresii.
Food for thought.
I'll share some new arrivals soon when they are in fact, arrivals.
Lets have a competition for best Frankenstein grafts,
How about a graft , on a graft, on a graft on graft, with more multiple grafts all on the same stock. Create a monster.
philwilliams wrote:Lets have a competition for best Frankenstein grafts,
How about a graft , on a graft, on a graft on graft, with more multiple grafts all on the same stock. Create a monster.
I've totally been thinking of trying that! Maybe now is the time. I'm not big into montrose stuff but I would like a chimera.
Thirsty for knowledge. Please water me more than your cactus!
is there any new species of cacti still discovered and described?
Loads. I'd say at least a dozen a year although I'm sure I don't see them all. Many many things published in non-English society or specialist genus journals. I probably catch most of the European ones, but anything in the far east I probably miss. 90% are ignored or fairly rapidly lumped into something else, but still there are one or two really new things cropping up all the time.
A species just described new to science in 2010 is quite distinct and is a species I would LOVE to add to my collection: Corynopuntia guccinii (2010).
The flower color is quite unique in the "Grusonia" complex being bright red.
so.. a newly discovered species and you already have one well done!!
With apologies to the late Professor C. D. Darlington the following misquotation springs to
mind ‘cactus taxonomy is the pursuit of the impossible by the incompetent’ - Fearn & Pearcy, Rebutia (1981)
I feel the same way, im not into grafts at all...
well done!!