I came across a few free online cactus and succulent journals. All make their back issues available for download.<\/p>\n
Cactus Explorers<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n Essex Succulent Review<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n Xerophila<\/a><\/b><\/i> \u2014 a bilingual magazine, in Romanian and English. You may need to download the PDFs to read them; viewed online, the text in one language is overlaid on top of the other, making it unreadable.<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> Special Issue #5, February 2015<\/em>, is of particular interest. It’s devoted to the volcanic Rangitoto and White Islands in New Zealand:<\/p>\n … Claude Sarich, a sulphur miner working on White Island in 1931\u201332, left a vivid description: “The worst hell on earth, a place where rocks exploded in the intense heat, where men had to wear wool instead of cotton because cotton just fell apart in just a couple of hours, where they had to clean their teeth at least three times a day because their teeth went black, and where the land shook violently and regularly sending rocks flying through the air”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Sch\u00fctziana<\/a><\/b><\/i> \u2014 Devoted to the genus Gymnocalycium<\/em>.<\/p>\n It may be expensive to skim through these, or Succulent Sundae<\/a>, while your browser is open to the Mesa Garden<\/a> seed lists.<\/p>\n Addendum: A curious historical note from a biography<\/a> of German cactus grower Walther Haage:<\/p>\n In the Third Reich the \u201cnon-Aryan\u201d cactus had to live underneath the tables.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I came across a few free online cactus and succulent journals. All make their back issues available for download. Cactus Explorers Essex Succulent Review Xerophila \u2014 a bilingual magazine, in Romanian and English. You may need to download the PDFs to read them; viewed online, the text in one language is overlaid on top of … Continue reading “More spiny things”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[692],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-aTB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41887"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41915,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41887\/revisions\/41915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}