Lack of nomenclature/production nursery cactus

[katu]

Ok so this may be better suited to bitches and gripes as is a bit of a rant. A cactus related rant but a rant none the less. So we all know that apart from some very specialist nurserys, SAB for eg, that the vast majority of nurseries(in OZ), be it your little local or a big store like bunnings order 90% if not all of their stock from a small handful of production nursery's. My question is this. Whats with the lack of nomenclature? I mean any other plant be it an orchid, cycad, herbs whatever have in the least the genera, common name, if not the whole species name. There are exceptions but generally speaking with regard to cactus they have a pot with a tag that reads "cactus". Even a lot of the online stores don't specify species but rather pot size. Better yet some will offer you the choice but charge you more for labled plants?? Fucks me off it does . So cactus collectors don't give a shit about nomenclature? Heresy I say!!! (Katu climbs down of high horse, lights a cigarette and feels much better).

[hostilis]

Cactus collectors care, but cactus whores (altman's) don't care what cactus collectors want.

[~shameless~]

I think cactus growers in australia like paradisia don't make the epic amounts of money from their cactus lines , esp when they are trucking down large amounts of cycads, strelitzia and lovely indoor ficus which I see taking up heaps more room on the floor of most nurseries, so a lot of nursery staff aren't familiar with them as much as they are with leafy popular stuff, its just easier for them to chuck a generic cactus label on them rather than spend a few hours get an expert to come in and help them order the correct labels, also a lot of nursery managers who don't collect cactus, rather see them as" pain in the arse line" often requiring more time to pack and freight them, I reckon an excuse used if one made an enquiry to find out about the lack of nomeculture is that they arent a big money spinner, most customers like grafted colourful varieties and don't care what they are called , they are ugly and only sell with a novelty label with a picture of the cookie monster or cousin it or some shit and require novelty decorations like glued on plastic eyes (wtf?) they would also use the excuse, who cares, if it looks a golden barrel it probably can be sold as golden barrel,

Not unusual to see a pc labled as a scope at collectors corner.

About 7 years ago I purchased a bridgesii and a staff member from mentioned nursery said to me (with a tired and angry look on their face)" don't even bother with growing outside, keep it inside all year, they can be tricky to grow mate good luck(tool) " they were talking about a bridgesii!

It a cultural thing amongst retail nursery staff, to consider most customers as people who don't need to have a full description of a genus species common name and any previous names included on label now, cos its gonna die on them anyway,

End of my rant as well!

[watertrade]

Hamiltons in Sydney that provide buntings with cacti make a little bit of effort. But lets be honest , once you hot glue some googly eyes on the side Mr. Cactus will do!

[hostilis]

Or you can just spray paint them psychedelic colors and label them "Kosmik Kaktus!"

[katu]

Those Kosmik Kactus are an abomination

[Strontium Dawg]

Hamilton's have issues too with their labelling, I have bought a terscheckii and a myrtillocactus both labelled as Peruvian torch.