Mini-Show Results August, 2019

Cactus of the Month: Epithelantha, Frailea, Aztekium. Succulent of the Month: Dyckia, Hechtia, Puya.

[Ed: Sorry no photo of Novice Cactus Winner – Matt Straup – Epithelantha micromeris]

Photography by: Mike Short
Results submitted by: Jim Tanner

Open Cactus

1st: Maria Capaldo – Epithelantha micromeris
2nd: Maria Capaldo – Epithelantha micromeris

Open Succulent

1st: Maria Capaldo – Dyckia Hybrid
2nd: Maria Capaldo – Dyckia Hybrid
2nd: Phyllis DeCrescenzo – Dyckia ‘Brittle Star’ Hybrid
3rd: Maria Capaldo – Dyckia Hybrid
3rd: Phyllis DeCrescenzo – Dyckia platyphylla

Intermediate Cactus

Intermediate Succulent

1st: Dale La Forest – Hechtia epigyna
2nd: Bernard Johnson – Dyckia Hybrid
2nd: Bernard Johnson – Dyckia Bill Baker Hybrid
3rd: Anita Caplan – Dyckia
3rd: Bernard Johnson – Dyckia ‘Silverado’ Hybrid

Novice Cactus

1st: Matt Straup – Epithelantha micromeris

Novice Succulent

1st: Martha Bjerke – Dyckia fosteriana
2nd: Ted Johnson – Dyckia ‘Rosetips’
2nd: Ted Johnson – Dyckia ‘South Bay’ cv. Tibor
3rd: Ted Johnson – Dyckia 800
3rd: Jim Tanner – Dyckia ‘Brittle Star’

LATIN LOOKUP – Loquerisne Latine (Do you speak Latin)?

The meanings of latin plant names on this page – from http://davesgarden.com/guides/botanary/

• Dyckia [DY-kee-uh, DIK-ee-uh]
  Named for Prince Joseph Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck, 19th century botanist and author of book on succulents.
• epigyna [ep-ih-GY-na]
  From the Greek epi (over) and gyne (ovary).
• Epithelantha [ep-ith-el-LAN-tha]
  From the Greek epi (upon), thele (nipple), and anthos (flower); nipple-like flowers.
• fosteriana [fos-ter-ee-AY-nuh]
  Named for Mulford Bateman Foster, 20th century American horticulturist who provided many specimens to the botanist Lymen B. Smith.
• Hechtia [HEK-tee-uh]
  Named for Julius Gottfried Conrad Hecht, 19th century counsellor to the King of Prussia.
• platyphylla [plat-TY-fil-uh]
  Broad leaved.