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February 2021: Virtual Brag Table Results
Submit to next month’s brag table for boasting rights, judge feedback, and club bucks!
Just send in your name, your plant’s scientific name, a photo, your category (cacti or succulent, up to 2 plants per category) and your rank (novice= <10 wins, intermediate= 10+ wins, advanced= pro grower) by March 21st, 2021.
To enter, email your entries with the subject line “Brag Table” to the editor at: eyf.editor@gmail.com
Special Thanks:
For showing your beautiful specimens!
Kelly Griffin as digital plant arbiter / commenter!
38 Specimens: 15 cactus & 22 succulents
20 Members
Cactus Advanced
1st Place:
Ariocarpus retusus var. furfuraceus
Mike Burkhardt
"Two heads are better than one!"
2nd Place:
Mammillaria spinossisima
Dean Karras
"As nice as a Mamm can get!"
3rd Place:
Turbinicarpus saueri ssp septentrionalis
Dean Karras
"Flowering up a storm"
Turbinicarpus schwarzii v. rubrifloru
Dean Karras
Cactus Intermediate
1st Place:
Mammillaria spinosissima
May Fong Ho
"great mamm and right time of the year!"
2nd Place:
Stenocactus multicostatus ssp. zacatecasensis
Sherman Blench
"I too liked the old name better! "
3rd Place:
Neoporteria (Eriosyce) taltalensis v. violaciflora
Allen Clark
"Having seen this in the wild, I marvel at it. The second photo shows it prettier but the close up on the old deteriorating lowest spines shows this to be fairly old and not unlike the old spines in the wild."
Gymnocalycium bruchii
Allen Clark
Mammillaria elongata
Norb Roden
Mammillaria elongata
Norb Roden
Cactus Novice
1st Place:
Mammillaria spinosissima
Ruth Contino
"Great flowers on this often seen species. It grows well and looks good"
1st Place:
Neoporteria wagneknechii
Ruth Contino
"Wonderful plant. I too ignore the placement in Eriocyse so no correction"
2nd Place:
Mammillaria matudae
Jodi Visosky
"Interesting branching on this one. Nice plant"
2nd Place:
Trichocereus bridgesii monstrose
Gale Perez
"Nice older plant but the frog???"
3rd Place:
Ferocactus emoryi
Eileen Mandell
"Still a baby but getting there!"
3rd Place:
Stenocactus multicostatus ssp. zacatecasensis
Eileen Mandell
"Great candy striped flowers"
Succulent Advanced
1st Place:
Conophytum minimum wittebergense
Mike Burkhardt
"Who said "Conos" never win!?"
2nd Place:
Anacampseros alstonii
Mike Burkhardt
"Old plant. I hope you have had it forever"
3rd Place:
Euphorbia suppressa
Mike Nelson
"With two "P"s and two "S"s, it has to be good and it is!"
Hechtia lepidophylla
Dean Karras
Lapidaria margaretae
Dean Karras
Succulent Intermediate
1st Place:
Euphorbia aeruginosa
Norb Roden
"With flowers, well staged"
2nd Place:
Echeveria pulidonis
Norb Roden
"Lovely older plant showing the bright yellow flowers"
3rd Place:
Laelia bradei
Tom Biggart
"This succulent orchid would be a shoe in for first with flowers. it has fairly large ones given the size of the plant. the pot was rather geological and interesting choice."
Aeonium "Mardi Gras"
Pauline Wong
Echeveria subsessilis variegated
Pauline Wong
Succulent Novice
1st Place:
Haworthia truncata var. maughanii
Patti Nelson
"Nice older plant looking a lot like they do in South Africa"
1st Place:
Sarcocaulon herrei
Michael Loesch
"Slow growing and nicely grown in flower"
2nd Place:
Titanopsis calcarea
Eileen Mandell
"It appears to be two different plants, perhaps two species but nicely grown"
3rd Place:
Tulista pumila
Michael Loesch
"Looks like the Robertson SA form to me."
Echeveria hybrid
Joan Herskowitz
Euphorbia clandestina
Jodi Visosky
Euphorbia sp.
Pat Bryan
Kalanchoe tarantula & Graptopetalum 'Murasaki'
Georgia Kenney
Mangave 'Man of Steel'
Georgia Kenney
Sempervivum arachnoideum
Joan Herskowitz
If you find any error, please contact membership@sdcss.net to correct.
Thank you all for the beautiful specimens!
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