The current succulent mavin is Susan Amoy. She has a wonderful digitized
slide show on her computer and she does great demos. She was the speaker at
LIBS last month. As for me, I'll pass on succulents as bonsai. Their
genetic characteristics cause their trunks to become barrel shaped in order
to store water. This permutation prevents the development of taper. The
fleshiness of the leaves doesn't help either.
Marty
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nina Shishkoff"
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Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 2:59 PM
Subject: [IBC] succulents as bonsai


We haven't kicked this around in awhile. Any thoughts on succulents as
bonsai? Some of you have been awful quiet--what do you think?

A great place to look at succulents or pachycauls is:
http://retail.rareplantresearch.com/home.php

A number of the plants in their catalog are described as "great for
bonsai", although I can't guarantee they actually are (their figs are a
pretty good bet, however). But I think a number of plants in the
Euphorbiaceae might make good bonsai.

The minimum order for their catalog is something like $80, so a club might
want to pool an order.

Me, I'm wild about Dorstenias.

Nina


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