Grant funds were awarded to Wilthon Laurel Yepez to survey and propagate rare succulents of southern Peru.
Browningia candelaris with Melocactus peruvianus in the foreground
The CSSA provided a grant to Wilthon Laurel Yepez to catalog and collect different taxa of succulent plants of the Family Cactaceae, Bromeliaceae, Euphorbiaceae and Peruvian Crasulaceae in the Arequipa region of Peru and to propagate these plants in his greenhouse authorized by the Peruvian government. Characteristics of the plants and seeds, including habit, height, altitude, and location will be reported in the study.
The beautiful cephalium with a ripe fruit of Melocactus peruvianus.
For additional information about this study, see CSSJ issue 95-3 (linked below), written by Wilthon Anthony Laurel Yepez, Arequipa Between the Sea and the Andes: Desert Species of Peru and their Conservation.
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