{"id":373,"date":"2025-11-17T07:49:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/?p=373"},"modified":"2025-11-17T07:49:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:49:23","slug":"echinocereus-download-your-special-issue-copy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/echinocereus-download-your-special-issue-copy\/","title":{"rendered":"Echinocereus, Download Your Special Issue Copy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Introduction<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opuntiads.com\/records\/Echinocereus%20Special%20Issue.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Echinocereus Special Issue<\/em><\/span><\/a> magazine was published by CACTUS&amp;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&#8211;you won&#8217;t be disappointed. The photos are much more reproduced in the PDF form than they are here on the Web.<\/p>\n<h3>The Details<\/h3>\n<p>Echinocereus 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&#8217;ve had blooming plants from seeds in 3 years. I kept them from getting too hot in summer and too cold in winter. Not every climate affords that chance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More Details<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Echinocereus, Flora of North America\" href=\"http:\/\/www.efloras.org\/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&amp;taxon_id=111215\">From the Flora of North America<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Echinocereus was treated\u00a0as a distinct North American tribe Echinocereeae\u00a0Buxbaum before recent chloroplast DNA analyses demonstrated that <i>Echinocereus<\/i>\u00a0is nested within tribe Pachycereeae\u00a0Buxbaum\u00a0emend. A. C. Gibson &amp; K. E. Horak, including the dominant columnar cacti of North America (R. S. Wallace and A. C. Gibson 2002). Whether <i>Echinocereus<\/i> 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"768\" data-carousel-extra='null' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 768px; height: 623px;\" data-original-width=\"768\" data-original-height=\"623\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-2\" style=\"width: 340px; height: 623px;\" data-original-width=\"340\" data-original-height=\"623\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/echinocereus-download-your-special-issue-copy\/echinocereus-di-martino\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"336\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"354\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"374\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/echinocereus-di-martino.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"653,688\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Echinocereus, Special Issue\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/echinocereus-di-martino-285x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/echinocereus-di-martino-569x600.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/echinocereus-di-martino.jpg?w=336&#038;h=354&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/echinocereus-di-martino.jpg 653w, https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/echinocereus-di-martino-285x300.jpg 285w, https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/echinocereus-di-martino-569x600.jpg 569w\" width=\"336\" height=\"354\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"336\" data-original-height=\"354\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Echinocereus, Special Issue\" alt=\"Echinocereus, Special Issue\" style=\"width: 336px; 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height: 214px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Echinocereus, Special Issue <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction The Echinocereus Special Issue magazine was published by CACTUS&amp;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&#8211;you won&#8217;t be disappointed. 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