CACTUS & Co. is pleased to announce the publication (Spring 2007) of
"Melocacti of Cuba"
Authors: Zoltàn Rigerszki, Gérard Delanoy, Endre Ujréti, Anselme Vilardebo
Size: 21 x 21 cm, soft plastified cover, thread-bound, 180 pages, 270 colour pictures.
The book is offered before publication to regular subscribers for 2007 at the price
of 25,00 euros plus postage cost: Europe and Mediterranean countries 5,00 euros;
America, Asia & Africa 10 euros; Australia 15,00 euros.
Topics include: a history of the discoveries and searches for melocacti
in Cuba, geographical characteristics and climatic features of the island,
phytogeography of Cuba (by Attila Borhidi), description of the
Cuban Melocactus species and their classification, origin and evolution
of the Cuban Melocactus species and their interrelationships,
Cuban melocacti in cultivation, a list of field numbers in
chronological order.
C&Co. vol.3 2007 - EDITORIAL
This issue contains, among other contributions, two articles that we
might label as "ethnobotanical", and are therefore pompously
placed in a section called Ethnika: the first of them celebrates
tequila, the heavenly mexican liquor distilled from agave; the second
one tells of the centuries-old familiarity of Sicilians with Opuntia ficus-indica.
The latter gives us a good excuse for replacing a boring editorial
with a short private story.
"Like uncle Cocò"
Someone had just given Lino a small cactus. One of those horrid little
ones, with a round red ball grafted onto a small green stalk. That was
where it all started. Others came, they gradually took over the balcony
and the sitting room. Marvelli appeared, the Association and the Journal
were started, the whole crescendo. But that is another story.
Uncle Cocò belongs to my childhood. He had set up his cine camera in
front of some plants in the garden of the old house behind the Matrice
Church, taking one frame every 30 seconds, and had filmed the opening
of long white flowers on a cactus [probably Echinopsis sp., N.Ed.]. The
result was a short film that enchanted us children. We could see the bud
appear, grow and swell, then in a glorious andante con moto it opened,
tested the air and offered itself to the inevitable bumblebee that was just
passing...
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