Sedum, Hylotelephium, Phedimus and Rhodiola

[FrazerHenderson]

Issue 130 just published and includes amongst many things:

- Indumentum of Petrosedum
- a showcase Kalanchoe arborescens
- Sedum hunting in Montenegro
- Research on the naming of S.hispanicum
- a review of introduction, typification and cultivars of Hylotelephium sieboldii plus articles on nomenclature
- Book Reviews: Tian Shan and its flowers; Flora of Georgia
- Review of online greekflora.gr

[FrazerHenderson]

Issue 131 now out packed with articles, plant descriptions,  a biography of Scottish plant hunter Thomas Baillie MacDougall, book reviews and web links plus details of the seed exchange and the index of issues 121-130.

There's an important article about Hylotelephium ussuriense by the late Lawrie Springate and Julian Shaw (both, I think, from Edinburgh RBGE).

Also to draw to your attention the book review of Crassulaceae of the Russian Far East by Svetlana Gontcharova and the website http://botsad.ru/menu/mir-rastenii/atlas-crassul/

[FrazerHenderson]

Issue 132 out now with articles, seed exchange and information on the cuttings exchange.

Worth drawing to your attention an article by Ray Stephenson on the distribution of Crassulaceae in Kefalonia, a discussion on Echeveria hybrids, and part 1 of a plant exploration of Catalonia.

There's also a very useful review of the Secrets of Namaqualand Succulents by Florent Grenier, Media Graphic https://namaqualand-succulents.com/

There's also a note that all Newsletters 1-130 are now available on a single searchable file supplied on memory stick for £40, E45 or $50 - that's a real bargain.

Also to note that the searchable index of all issues (by yours truly) is freely available at the International Crassulaceae Network ( http://www.crassulaceae.ch/de/home) at http://www.crassulaceae.ch/uploads/files/pdf/Index%201-131%20Sedum%20Society%20Index.pdf

[Maggi Young]

May I take  this  opportunity  to  congratulate  you  on the  work you  fo to  index the  Sedum Society  Newsletter ?  Such work is  always  of  great  use  to readers and  is  no small duty.

[FrazerHenderson]

Issues 133 and 134 just published.

Interesting fact: Rhodiola rosea has increased its range in Greenland by 800% since 1992.

Issue 133

- Exploration of Catalonia
- Reflections on the two Sedum species of the Alsinefolio series
- Discussion on taxonomy of Sedum cupressoides
- New combinations and notes on Orostachys
- New combinations in Sinocrassula

plus shorter horticultural notes, photographs and artlcles on distribution, identification etc.

Issue 134

An extra issue because of a bumper supply of articles (and to beat the UK postal price increase)

- Distribution of Petrosedum sediforme subsp. dianum with photographs and type-species.
- A comprehensive and fascinating review by Julian Shaw (Taxonomist RHS) of putative hybrids of Aeonium x Sempervivum

plus a wide range of short articles, photographs and notes.

The Sedum Society will be present at the BCSS National Show (held every four years) at the Marshal Arena, Milton Keynes on 4 July 2020. [The show is, of course, subject to any restrictions that might be in force due to Covid-19.]

www.cactus-mall.com/sedum

[FrazerHenderson]

Issue 135 out now including:
- Notes on Sedum palmeri 'Guatemalan Mini'
- Botanical description of Sedum glomerifolium
- Ethiopian succulents
- x Semponium [Sempervivum x Aeonium]
- Orthography of Sedum middendorffianum
- Crassula 'Tresco seaspray

annual subscription for magazines, cuttings exchange, seed exchange, reference library etc only £12, Euros22, $30  www.cactus-mall.com/sedum/

[FrazerHenderson]

Issue 136 out now.

Articles include:

- a comprehensive review of Hylotelephium section Populisedum
- new combinations in Sedum versadense
- Sedum glomerifolium in cultivation
- Crassula barklyi (stupendous photographs of the plants in situ in South Africa)

Plus smaller articles and notes on plants, cultivation and exploration

[FrazerHenderson]

Issue 137 just published:

- review of the Sino-Swedish Expedition 1927-1935
- photographic essay of Rhodiola plants changing sex in 2020
- a discussion of Echeveria 'John Knox'
- a discussion of a new variegated form of Petrosedum ochroleucum
- articles on Crassula dependens
- Petrosedum sediforme extremes

plus the bumper cuttings and seed exchange lists

Subscription still £12 UK, E22 Europe and Ireland, $30 rest of the world

[FrazerHenderson]

Issue 138 just published:

- abnormal inflorescences on Sempervivum and Petrosedum
- an appreciation of botanical illustrator Elfride Martha Abbe
- distribution of Aeonium spathulatum on Gran Canaria, Canary Isles, Spain
- Sempervivum calcareum
- seed growing 2020
- plus short notes on a range of matters

plus two historic reprints:
- Sweet's Hortus Britannicus (Crassulaceae)
- Key Gardens Crassulaceae collection 1899

[FrazerHenderson]

Issue 139 just published includes:

- review of Sedum batallae
- Crassulaceae of Kyrgyzstan
- review of xTaciveria
- review of Cotyledon tomentosa
- tributes to Helen Payne and Brother Brouard

plus details of a fully searchable file on a memory stick of all issues of the newsletter (1-130)

[FrazerHenderson]

Issue 140 has just been published:

- discussion of flowering of Sedum morganianum
- Review of the work of Reid Venable Moran
- Tortrix moth - Epiphyas postvittana
- Sedum lucidum complex
- Differentiating common Petrosedum in cultivation
- Jovabarda heuffelii selections
- Sedum villosum in cultivation

[FrazerHenderson]

Issue 141 just published:

- appreciation of American plant hunter Edward Nelson
- growing from seed
-Sedum lancerottense
- pollinating insects on stonecrops (fully illustrated)
- the legacy of John Gilbert Baker

- details and costs of past issues (e.g. complete set on memory stick £35) plus photographs taken in the wild 1987-2017

- plus seed exchange booklet

Society membership still only £12 UK, £20 Europe, $30 US or rest of the world for four magazines, seed exchange, cuttings exchange (UK) and access to society resources.

[FrazerHenderson]

Issue 142 just published:

- Green roof system at convention centre, New York
- Hylotelphium Sunspakler (reg) 'Wildfire'
- Tylecodon sulphureus
- eBAY purchaes - buyer beware
- Ralph Randall Stewart, an appreciation.
- book review of Las Crasulaceas de Mexico Vol 2
- New sedum for Crete, Sedum dasyphyllum
- Variegation and chimeral forms
- Raymond Hamet and the mystery hyphen
- Echevaria download book https://www.gob.mx/cms/uploads/attachment/file/225102/Guia_practica_de_propagaci_n_y_cultivo_de_las_especies_del_genero_Echeveria.pdf
- Viviparous Crassulaceae
- Carl Johann Maximowicz

[FrazerHenderson]

Issue 143

- Petrosedum amplexicaule (reconsiderations of the species)
- von Middendorff biography
- Critical appraisal of Las Crasulaceas de Mexico volume II by Jorge Meyran Garcia
- the enigma of Sedum ccallu

[FrazerHenderson]

Issue 144 just published:

- discussion of taxonomic status of Sedum subulatum
- Sedum album in Snowdonia; Umbilicus rupestris in mid Wales
- formal description of xGraptosedum 'Gerhard Koehres'
- Aichryson bituminosum in cultivation
- review of Society's excellent cuttings exchange
- Crassulaceae in Bulgaria (Part1) with full checklist and exploration of the north-west of the country.

Four magazines per year, cuttings and seed exchanges plus access to experts - £12, E20 or $30 inclusive of postage. Index of magazine articles and illustrations:
https://www.crassulaceae.ch/uploads/files/pdf/Index%201-138%20Sedum%20Society%20Index.pdf