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I should probably stop before it gets too weird ;)

I know those plants, hate they way old mate has tied the columns together. When ever I drive past I just cringe.

Ya the new lexicon does bring together Parodia and Notocactus, but that was done ages ago. Also Trichocereus, Soerhensia, Helianothcereus and Echinopsis have been grouped into Echinopsis for ages too. No one book is correct, this is just the best thing we currently have on offer. Backeberg's "Cactus Lexicon", Borg's "Cacti" and Britton and Rose's "The Cactaceae" are very good books if you're interested in Cactus Taxonomic History, but they're really no longer useful. Also Anderson's "The Cactus Family" is pretty good if you can get a cheap copy. Really you shoulod be buying specific books for specific genera if you want the real goods.

Yeah I agree with the Steno ID, way, way, fucking cooler than finding a Tricho at Bunnings

I did prop work most of the day. Working on Mammillaria's mostly. Much fun was had.

Here's a pic of one of my T. pachanoi x T. terscheckii

T. bridgesii x T. pachanoi? maybe

The Maccas of Cactus horticulture. Thanks for the lovely words PieÓh'Pah. Never worked at CC / Para, but I am well familiar with them.

yeah right, it is P. azures

Myrtillocactus geometrizans and Pilosocereus glaucus

The 'lizard skin' cultivar is amazing! I will get around to taking some photos of some copes, got some lovely specimens here. You really know you're starting to lose it and become insane plant nerd when you get into collecting copes. Big Ups!!!

There will always to disagreements in cacti taxonomy. Currently i am using "The New Cactus Lexicon" as my cacti bible. "Originally published in 2006, this two-volume work ('NCL' for short) is the first scientifically authoritative conspectus of the Cactaceae since Britton & Rose's famous monograph nearly a century ago and the benchmark reference for everyone with an interest in the diversity, identification and conservation of cacti." - http://www.newcactuslexicon.org/

Weird as "Knowing, understanding, growing Turbinicarpus - Rapicactus" by David Donati and Carlo Zanovella was released in 2005, they go through all known taxa and have no reference to varieties or subspecies of horripilus.

Yeah if it's really slow growing I reckon spinygator is right. The spines and wool are slightly different to cels

Definitely looks like a T. horripilus flower to me. Just had a look at the key you mentioned. "This key is based on keys from "A revision of the genus Turbinicarpus", CASJ(US),49(4):1977, by Charles Glass and Robert Foster, Las Cactáceas De México by Helia Bravo-Hollis and Hernando Sánchez-Mejorada and A revision of the genus Neolloydiaby E. F. Anderson." There has been a lot of work done on Turbinicarpus since 1977.

Don't feed it! if you want it to be fat, you just need to put in the years.

Where did you find the Turb key? just had a look through the new lexicon, they don't list any sub species. Also had a flick through two other books on turbs that don't even mention horripilus. The plant we grow we call Gymnocactus horripilus var. goldii, that name just came with the plant and we've been growing it for years. We usually grow new plants from offsets so I'm not sure about seedling spines. It is fairly common for Cacti to have different immature and mature spination.

I thought pic two P. pecten aboriginum, pringleiis have grey skin and get a lot fatter at that age. First one looks defs like an Oreo, don't think its a cels but

meh, more cuttings, more seedlings...

Any thoughts on the fields thing smith?

Pieóh'pah. we're not that big, you should check out Collectors Corner next time you're in Melbourne. (our stuff is still better but ;)

Nah we stopped doing Tuesdays and Thursdays a couple of years ago now.