Selected Plants of the

National Capital Cactus & Succulent Society

2009 Show and Sale

Euphorbia descoingsii

Aloe descoingsii var. augustina

Grown and Exhibited by:  Bob Petza

This plant won the Best Other Succulent in Show Ribbon.  It was perfectly grown, with no leaf damage and great symmetry.  Leaf tip damage is common on these small aloes and Bob's plant had none.  This small, stemless rosette aloe is native to the island of Madagascar.  


Echeveria 'Black Prince'

Echeveria 'Black Prince'

Grown and Exhibited by:  Ingrid Fritze

This was the Blue Ribbon Winner in Class 15 and is an exceedingly beautiful and well grown plant.  
Haworthia emelyae

Haworthia emelyae

Grown and Exhibited by:  Bob Stewart

This plant won the Blue Ribbon in Class 19 and is a great example of how wonderful plants in the genus Haworthia can be.  This plant was grown "hard" meaning lots of sun and careful watering.  Growing "hard" often brings out the best colors in haworthias.  




Weingartia lanata

Weingatia lanata

Grown and Exhibited by:   Ingrid Fritze

This plant won the Blue Ribbon in Class 6.  Obviously it's the woolly areoles that set this cactus off from most others.  At the show it attractive immediate attention.  In Edward Anderson's book "The Cactus Family" weingartias have been combined into the genus Rebutia, but whatever the name it's a beautiful plant.
Lithops bromfieldii

Lithops bromfieldii 'Sulphurea'

Grown and Exhibited by:   Bob Stewart

The Blue Ribbon winner in Class 17.  Lithops are often difficult to grow for many and when you come across a 30+ head plant it really does stand out. 
Of course if you want a many headed Lithops, this is the one to grow.  Steven Hammer says it has a manic disposition, clustering uncontrollably.
Melocactus azureus

Melocactus azureus

Grown and Exhibited by Bob Stewart

The Blue Ribbon Winner in Class 7 and another great seed grown plant by Bob Stewart.  Bob sowed the seed in 1993 and the cephalium developed in 2006.  (The cephalium is the strange looking thing on the very top of the plant.  It's made up of many fine bristles and once it forms the main body of the cactus stops growing and from then on only the cephalium increases in size.)
Parodia aurihamata

Parodia  aurihamata

Grown and Exhibited by Ingrid Fritze
The Blue Ribbon Winner in Class 9.  Parodias are great cacti to grow, both for their beautiful flowers and their attractive spination. 
Pachypodium rosulatum


Pachypodium  rosulatum

 Grown and Exhibited by Bob Petza
The Blue Ribbon Winner in Class 22h.  We only had a few pachypodiums in this year's show but this was a beautifully grown and exhibited plant.    Pachypodium rosulatum is native to the island of Madagascar.
Hoya carnosa

Hoya carnosa

Grown and Exhibited by Trudy Deitchman
Second Place Winner in Variegated Plant Class.  Not every plant in the show has to be rare or unusual.  A well grown, commonly cultivated succulent is just as important as any rare plant.  The public enjoys seeing plants that they themselves are, or have grown.  This was a clean and attractive hoya, staged in a very nice container.  A great addition to our show.  Hoya carnosa is one of 100 species of Hoya that are native to Eastern Asia and Australia. The common houseplant Hoya carnosa was named for Thomas Hoym, gardener to the Duke of Northumberland at the end of the 18th century.


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