Join us at 12PM CST on April 16th for another CSSA Webinar!

Program: Exploring the Best of Our Wonderful Mammillarias; “Normals” and Their Strange Variations There are about 200 recognized species in the genus Mammillaria, making it one of the largest members of the cactus family. Everyone has at least one, and it is usually the first cactus in a collection. Because of this, the entire genus is sometimes viewed as uninteresting or common, but this program explores the joy of finding the oddities of a “normal” species.

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Hi All!

Our monthly meeting will be Tuesday, April 5th at 7:30PM at the Arboretum. We will be having an ugliest plant contest and plant raffle.

Feel free to also bring some of your “mystery plants” to the meeting to see if some of our members can identify them.

Hope to see you there!

Hi All!

It is our pleasure to announce we will be hosting our annual plant sale at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Gardens again this year! We will have a wide selection of plants available and the schedule will be as follows:

7am – 4pm for Members

9am – 4pm for General Public

We hope to see you there!

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The Canary Islands consist of 8 volcanic islands and some uninhabited rocks, located just over 60 miles off the Western African coast. They are often referred to as the “Galapagos Islands of Botany” because of the large number of endemic plants that have adapted to the surprisingly diverse ecological niches that exist on this limited area.

With about 100 species, especially of the Crassulaceae, but also of the Euphorbiaceae, Apocynaceae, and Aizoaceae families, succulent plants make up an important part of this endemism.

For this talk, Wolfgang has made a personal selection of the most impressive succulent plants and their habitats, covering all islands and all relevant vegetation zones. 

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Robert Webb has been giving a series of talks about Euphorbias. In this installment, he explores some of the intermediate-scale species of Euphorbia. The focus will be on plants in Yemen, East Africa, South Africa, and Namibia with some discussion of horticulture and propagation. Using an approach of mostly field-cultivation images, he will discuss some of the interesting species of Euphorbias in these two groups.

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Hi All! February’s Cactus Club meeting will be held at 7:30PM on February 1st at the Arboretum. As always, raffle tickets will be available for $5.00. See you there!

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This program combines three trips into the south eastern portions of Brazil. The region is commonly called the Brazilian Highlands and includes the two states, Minas Gerais and Bahia. In these two states there are more cacti than in any other regions of Brazil, as well as a wealth of other plants to be found, including Bromeliads, Orchids and Palms.Our field adventure will feature the back country, the towns and their people, as well as a wide variety of plants and animals. The cacti we will focus on include Melocactus, Buiningia, Coleocephalocereus, Pilosocereus, Microcranthocereus, Discocactus, Tacinga, Arrojadoa and Uebelmannia. Some of the other plant genera we will encounter include Bursera, Cissus, Dyckia, Encholirium, Orthophytum and many other Bromeliads.

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Yuccas are much admired for their spiky rosettes of leaves and their beautiful clusters of creamy flowers. Because of the cold tolerance of some of the species, they can be found in gardens from New England to California, but few people realize how many species there are. In this presentation we will have a look at a broad range of species, from stemless dwarf ones to giants with impressive trunks. All Yucca species are native to the Americas, but they occur in many different habitats, from the Mojave Desert in the southwestern U.S. to the tropics of southern Mexico. In addition to plants in cultivation, we will see lots of photos of plants in their native habitats.

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Attila Kapitany is known for his presentations about Australian desert plants from sandy arid regions of the continent and about gardening with succulents,  but this is a look at the exciting plants that can be found on the east coast and closer to major cities of Australia.

Here you will see and learn about some of the weirdest succulent plants in the world, including caudiciform  ‘ant plants’ and succulent orchids.  While these rather unique epiphytic and lithophytic succulents in this presentation are not so much garden worthy at all, they make for great novelty and interest factor and are best suited for pots, porches and greenhouses.

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Hello All! It’s that time of year again and it’s time for our annual plant swap! Please bring at least one nice plant to contribute as well as and cuttings, seeds gardening supplies you want to share.

We will be meeting at 7:30PM at the Arboretum. See you there!