Greg has a busy talk schedule in early April with four talks scheduled for California and one back in Phoenix. The first event is for the Fresno Cactus and Succulent Society on Thursday April 2 at 7:00 PM. The topic for the Fresno C&SS is one of Greg’s favorites – Agaves: Living Sculptures. This presentation […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →On Friday the 19th of December I had to lay to rest my best friend, aside from my wife and son, and the only employee I ever had. Nikki found me when she was about 11 weeks old the week of Thanksgiving in 1998. I had just dropped our son off at school and took […]
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Leave a Comment (11) →Akory e (pronounced ah-coo- ray or ah-coo-ree) means hello. I tried to learn a little Malagasy while there, but it was quite frustrating as there seemed to be inconsistencies in the pronunciation of many words. Apparently the regional dialects are very different, and in some areas they will drop the last vowel, while in other […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →Carol and I had the opportunity to take a working vacation to Madagascar in September. It is the fourth largest island in the world, larger than California, but smaller than Texas, covering 227,800 square miles, the island is about 1000 miles long and 250 miles wide. We flew from Phoenix, Arizona to London (about 10 […]
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Leave a Comment (11) →Agave striata and Agave stricta are similar looking plants that both belong to the group Striatae. Agave striata has a wide ranging distribution and can be found in much of the Chihuahuan Desert Region mostly from central Coahuila and Nuevo Leon south into northern Zacatecas, southwestern Tamaulipas, much of San Luis Potosi, and into Hidalgo. […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →On a recent trip with Brian Kemble and Jeff Chemnick to east central Mexico and the states of Hidalgo, Queretaro, Guanajuato, San Luis Potosi and Tamaulipas, I had the good fortune to further examine Yucca queretaroensis growing at a total of five separate localities. Our first stop for these awesome yuccas was along the road […]
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Leave a Comment (9) →We pick up the tale of Agave turneri on the afternoon of the first day of my visit to the Sierra Cucapá with cactologist Peter Breslin. I had visited the east side of the Sierra Cucapá twice before, once in March of 2010 with fellow plant nerd Scott Calhoun, and then again in May 2011 with […]
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Leave a Comment (8) →In the far northeastern corner of Baja California lies the Sierra Cucapá, a northwest-southeast trending, granitic-core mountain range that is situated between the Laguna Salada to the west and the Cerro Prieto Volcano to the east. The Cerro Prieto geothermal field sits about 25 KM south of Mexicali. The Sierra Cucapá, along with the Sierra […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Yucca queretaroensis was first described in 1989 by Ignacio Piña Luján in the journal Cactáceas y Suculentas Mexicana, 34(3), pp. 51-56. The type locality is from near the town of Bucareli in Queretaro, Mexico. While studying the plants of the Rio Moctezuma basin in Queretaro, Piña Luján found these tall, trunk-forming plants growing on the […]
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Leave a Comment (9) →This beautiful species is seen in many localities in northern and northeastern Mexico, and appears to be quite variable both vegetatively and in the inflorescence depending on the locality. This species was initially called Agave macroculmis by Dr. Howard Scott Gentry in his Agaves of Continental North America with the type (the plant that the […]
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