Book ID: 115965
Pavlica, Roman
The Never Ending Story of Astrophytum Hybrids. 2019. illus. (col.). 316 p. 4to. Hardcover.
This book discusses a totally unique cactus genus and its amazing visual variability. It allows the grower to achieve endless possibilities in creating new plant shapes and flower colors.
In the first part of this book, Pavel Pavlicek returns directly to Mexico's home of this family and describes the original locations in nice photos. Furthermore, Roman Pavlica follows up on the cultivation in the European conditions and descries some of their procedures in working
with these plants. In many photos he presents some of his created plants.
The second part of this book is a lot of mostly photographic papers documenting the results in growing plants by cactus friends all over the world.