ARE YOU READY FOR HECHTIA??!

A NOT TO BE MISSED, highly interesting talk by Brian Kemble

The Bromeliad Family is a large group of plants from the Americas with great importance in horticulture.

One family member, the pineapple, is also important as a crop in tropical countries.

It is presumed that the family originated in South America, because this is where the family is most diverse, but Central America and North America have some wonderful examples as well, including the genus Hechtia.

Most of the Hechtia species come from Mexico, though they do cross the border
into the southwestern U.S,, as well as into Guatemala in a southward direction.

Unlike many bromeliads, the species in Hechtia have separate male and female plants, a difference that shows up only when they flower.

This talk will feature many Hechtia species in habitat, as well as ones in
cultivation. Brian Kemble is the Curator at the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek, CA, as well as the VP of the San Francisco Succulent & Cactus Society and the VP of the Institute for Aloe Studies.

He has been growing and studying succulents since the 1970’s, and has written many articles for the Cactus & Succulent Journal, as well as other publications.

His photos appear in numerous books on succulents, including the
Timber Press Guide to Succulent Plants of the World.

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