Cactus of the Month

king_hedes · Post by **king_hedes** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 11:32 pm

cool hob

Arjen · Post by **Arjen** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 6:20 am

fantastic job!

hob · Post by **hob** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 9:55 pm

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,

images by Daiv Freeman

i used Daiv's images for this article

other information by Neville Morton

that's me

http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16540

iann · Post by **iann** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:34 pm

Is that your new Cleistocactus, Hob

hob · Post by **hob** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:38 pm

iann wrote:Is that your new Cleistocactus, Hob

Quote:
images by Daiv Freeman
i used Daiv's images for this article

Post by **daiv** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 3:45 pm

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!

hob · Post by **hob** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 8:19 am

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

Peterthecactusguy · Post by **Peterthecactusguy** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 8:23 am

Hob,
you should make it into a book!

king_hedes · Post by **king_hedes** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 2:38 am

great job Hob
that would be a great book

hob · Post by **hob** » Fri Apr 30, 2010 12:19 pm

daiv wrote: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!

Another common one for January, I borrowed some of your images again. Without external sources for images my choices are limited to plants in my own collection.

Slowly catching up

January 2010

http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16926

iann · Post by **iann** » Fri Apr 30, 2010 1:47 pm

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.

hob · Post by **hob** » Fri Apr 30, 2010 1:53 pm

iann wrote: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.

http://www.iucnredlist.org has it listed as

Status: Critically Endangered

Post by **daiv** » Fri Apr 30, 2010 1:59 pm

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

iann · Post by **iann** » Fri Apr 30, 2010 2:38 pm

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.

hob · Post by **hob** » Fri Apr 30, 2010 2:41 pm

ok thanks, i'll edit that out then