845 Mason Road, Vista, CA 92084, USA
nocturnal phone: (760) 631-7898
email: sphaeroid@juno.com
July 5, 2008
Publishee's Clearing House List 14.1
(aka the day after the “Big Bang”)
Longer days and shorter finances, conjoined, always inspire me to issue lists. I've had timorous people ask if they can successfully transplant things in summer and I reply that in fact they can transplant every day of the year: if it's hot, just put the newbies where the sun never shines. Besides, what people call summer isn't true summer, it's pre-fall. Physiologically, summer peaks in late June. Just two weeks after the solstice, many conophytums are already cracking out. If it turns 103 again many of them may wish them could retreat into their cooling shells, but they'll have to wait for pre-summer to do that.
If ordering were any simpler it'd require extra-mutual telepathy: email me your wishes; I'll respond with a total; you send a check or M.O.; I'll ship ASAP. P varies from two days to three weeks, mostly as a function of the length of the Queue. Ten days is average according to Prunella, my secretary/keeper. Even when Pruney helps with the packing we can only process three or four orders a day.
Finitudes: items marked with *, **, or *** are in limited stock. No one may want them anyway but in case they actually sell, I'll need to limit the sales to one, two, or three per customer.
ACRODON
1. subulatoides W Sanddrif *
dainty teeth carved in malachite 4.00
ALOINOPSIS
2. spathulata S Sutherland
flowers with and without snow 4.00
ARGYRODERMA
3. crateriforme Kliprand road
taxonomic hornitos 3.00
4. fissum
victory-signalin' good 3.00
5. framesii Groot-Graafwater
refulgent petals 6.00
6. patens
shaped like the Sydney Opera House 6.00
7. pearsonii Quaggaskop
boiled eggs cleft in twain 4.00
8. subalbum Holriver
glossy pink filaments 4.00
9. testiculare *
luxuriant flowers 6.00
BIJLIA
10. dilatata 8 km W Prince Albert
asymmetry in action 3.00
11. dilitata 5 km N Prince Albert
bodacious tatas, dilated action in asymmetry 3.00
CARRUANTHUS
12. peersii Toorwaterpoort
dweller in need of a cliff 3.00
13. ringens Rooikoppies
bark's browner than its bite 3.00
CEPHALOPHYLLUM
14. x alstonii *
saturated red petals 3.00
15. niveum Moedverloor *
large pure white flowers 3.00
16. parvibracteatum
myriad golden suns 3.00
17. spissum Grootgraafwater
lox and bagels sans bagels 3.00
18. x spissum
unflowered seedlings which might be very nice 3.00
CHASMATOPHYLLUM
19. musculinum
favored haven of the spider mite 2.00
20. sp. Willowfontein near Grahamstown *
emerald tipped with rust 2.00
CHEIRIDOPSIS
21. delphinoides S Gladdekop
a sheath in time saves nine 3.00
CONOPHYTUM
22. bilobum var. elishae Springbok
squat little bilobe 5.00
23. bilobum var. linearilucidum Vanzyl se rus
skinny as a chartreuse supermodel 4.00
24. blandum Geselskapbank
delicate perfume 4.00
25. devium subsp. stiriiferum N Jakkalswater
as served @ the Dew Drop Inn 3.00
26. maughanii
capacious bladders 4.00
27. maughanii subsp. latum Umdaus
snifteriform bodies 4.00
28. maughanii subsp. latum N Jakkalswater
peach-tipped petals 4.00
29. pellucidum var. terricolor SW Springbok
etched in onyx 12.00
30. ratum Onder Namies
pink-beribboned balloons 6.00
31. reconditum
grits a-living 5.00
DELOSPERMA
32. esterhuyseniae
striking dwarf tufter 4.00
33. nubigenum *
buttercups, well-chilled 5.00
DISPHYMA
34. dunsdonii
white-eyed raspberry flowers 4.00
GLOTTIPHYLLUM
35. carnosum Rietvlei, Rooiberg Pass
waxes and wanes 4.00
36. regium Calitzdorp
peels like a summer sunburn 6.00
37. suave Rooinek Pass
promises you a rose garden 4.00
38. surrectum Ladismith **
controlled insurrections 5.00
LITHOPS
39. amicorum TS 67 X TS 67
small seedlings of this pale-skinned beauty 4.00
40. aucampiae Danielskuil
chocolate marbles 4.00
41. aucampiae Lynput
finely streaked doubles 6.00
42. aucampiae Postmasburg
near Miss Aucamp's po-pullulation 4.00
43. aucampiae 'Jackson's Jade'
evergreen seedlings 3.00
44. bromfieldii C 279
fine old doubles 6.00
45. dorotheae
booty is skin deep 3.00
46. hallii var. ochracea Stinkbrak **
crimped rusty margins 4.00
47. julii pallida *
nebulous marshmallows 4.00
48. julii subsp. fulleri var. brunnea C 179 x C 179
where did all the rubrications go? 3.00
49. karasmontana subsp. eberlanzii
convex streakers 4.00
50. lesliei 'Albinica' *
waxen yellowish green 3.00
51. lesliei var. hornii C 15 x C 15 **
inverse mariae 4.00
52. lesliei var. hornii C 364 x C 364 *
darker than no. 51 4.00
53. marmorata
nice self-sown generics 2.00
54. olivacea
firm but fenestrate "cuticle" 3.00
55. optica 'Rubra' Uitsig x Uitsig
blushing two-year-olds 3.00
56. pseudotruncatella Amor
TS 76; fascinatingly variable 4.00
57. salicola
somber shades 4.00
58. werneri C 188 x C 188
elegant pebbles 4.00
PEERSIA
59. macradenia Jagerskraal *
delicious coconut flowers over a long season 5.00
PLEIOSPILOS
60. nelii 'Royal Flush'
purple onions sans tears 4.00
RABIEA
61. comptonii Bloemfontein
covered with barnacles 4.00
RUSCHIA
62. marianiae Clanwilliam **
blooms scarlet as Hester's Letter 5.00
63. sp. aff. pilosula Black Face Mountain
what genus am I? 3.00
STOMATIUM
64. sp. SB 1216 Smorenskadu
leaves attractively reddened 4.00
VANHEERDEA
65. primosii
new-fangled Flip Tops 4.00
VLOKIA
66. sp. aff. ater near Matroosberg **
lovely dwarf dwarf 5.00
HAWORTHIA
67. arachnoidea var. xiphiophylla Bouwerskraal *
thatched roofs 4.00
68. chloracantha Gouritz Gorge *
green and gorgeous 5.00
69. cooperi var. pilifera 25 km SW Alicedale
GM 297; gives itself annual tips 5.00
70. emelyae Doringrivier **
Mount Hope type 4.00
71. emelyae var. major Sandkraal *
oddly ruddy sandpaper 12.00
72. emelyae var. multifolia
shades of rossouwii 8.00
73. floribunda Heidelberg *
short leathery straps 8.00
74. gracilis E Committees Drift **
feathery nests 6.00
75. herbacea
wonderful pastel flowers 6.00
76. herbacea var. flaccida Rooiberg *
non-contagious strain 6.00
77. herbacea var. subregularis E Worcester *
super-robust 6.00
78. limifolia Barberton *
black as an oboe 4.00
79. limifolia var. arcana
toffee brown 5.00
80. magnifica Riversdale
surprisinglypre-magnificent 4.00
81. minima x marginata
attractive natural hybrid 8.00
82. mirabilis (mundula) Mierkraal
lovely glossy leaves 6.00
83. mirabilis (mundula) Drew (!) *
just a bit fatter than no. 82 6.00
84. mirabilis var. badia Napier
good clones frostbitten in January 2007 8.00
85. mirabilis var. triebneriana
tiny teeth fringe the keels 8.00
86. monticola Baviaanskloof
permanently dull leaves 6.00
87. mutica
super chunky clones 8.00
88. outeniquensis*
get your anastomosing dots today 8.00
89. parksiana
tarantulas on the strand 6.00
90. retusa "Riversdale laundry*
green and extra clean 6.00
91. sordida Bouwerskraal *
Flora de La Brea Tar Pits 18.00
92. variegata var. petrophila Karsrivier *
small rich green tufts 4.00
93. venosa subsp. tessellata Three Sisters *
parti-colored blocks 6.00
94. zantnerianish Witberg *
dark puzzle 8.00
GASTERIA
95. armstrongii Humansdorp
once again an independent taxon! 6.00
96. baylissiana Oudekraal *
excellent clone 6.00
97. ellaphieae x armstrongii
salt meets pepper 6.00
98. glauca x kitchensinkoides
vigorous lowbrids 6.00
99. glauca x ellaphieae *
takes after momma 4.00
100. glomerata *
fat-leaved Japanese selection (Shirayuki Himai) 6.00
101. pulchra Hankey *
giraffeiform leaves 6.00
102. vlokii E Prince Albert *
delightful small variant 6.00
103. x Giant Blue Ice *
clone from Nature's Diversity Shop 3.00
104. hideous variegates crossed together
a) stripeless; excellent in stir-fry 1.00
b) striped; even better stewed with rhubarb 12.00 *
ALOE
105. deltoideodonta *
beautiful splotches 6.00
106. inermis *
not yet enormous 4.00
107. x Kelly's Girls recrossed *
nicely ruddy but not well-fanged 6.00
ANACAMPSEROS
108. scopata Augrabies
mini-tufts of lint 6.00
CRASSULA
109. elegans Doringpoort *
compact mid-Richtersveld form 4.00
110. elegans "globosa" x alstonii *
over-inflated Michelin tires in olive 6.00
ADROMISCHUS
111. alstonii 'Triebneri' *
strawberry marks on big paddle leaves 6.00
112. trigynus Carnarvon Estates