Introduction

The Echinocereus Special Issue magazine was published by CACTUS&Co in 1998 and edited by Lino Di Martino. It is 114 pages of beautiful photos (over 100 photos) and impressive information about Echinocereus. You can download the  semi-hardcover magazine-style publication here, in PDF form. Just click the PDF logo/link to download it–you won’t be disappointed. The photos are much more clearly reproduced in the PDF form than they are here on the Web.

The Details

Echninocereus is one of the most popular genera of cacti grown because they have brightly colored flowers, adapt to flower-pot culture, and are tolerant. They are typically short cylinders, single or in clumps. Echinocereus species grow relatively quickly; I’ve had blooming plants from seeds in 4 years; I kept them from getting too hot in summer and too cold in winter. obviously not ever climate affords that chance.

Download: Echinocereus Special Issue

More Details

From the Flora of North America

Echinocereus was treated as a distinct North American tribe Echinocereeae Buxbaum before recent chloroplast DNA analyses demonstrated that Echinocereus is nested within tribe Pachycereeae Buxbaum emend. A. C. Gibson & K. E. Horak, including the dominant columnar cacti of North America (R. S. Wallace and A. C. Gibson 2002). Whether Echinocereus and its closest relatives deserve recognition as a subtribe within the newly defined tribe awaits more extensive and intensive DNA investigations of all clades within the tribe.