CSSA VOL.80, May-June 2008 No.3 Aloe elegantissima - A beautiful new aloe from northern Somaliland Tom McCoy & John Lavranos Opuntia fragilis in Illinois Eric Ribbens & Barbara A Anderson Cactus tips from a master grower, Echinocereus Part 3 Elton Roberts Christmas in the summertime. The wildly beautiful flowers of Adenium oleifolium Dawie Human Book Review: The genera Pediocactus Navajoa Toumeya by Fritz Hochstätter Tom Mathies Book Review: Pachyforms II, Bonsai Succulents by Phillippe de Vosjoli & Rudy Little D Russell Wagner Some succulent memories, Part 5. Lost and found in Honduras Myron Kimnach Haworthias and the half-lives of data Steven Hammer Relations across the Rio Bravo Escobaria hesteri subspecies grata from el otro lado Jonas M Luthy Succulents on Stamps: Portulaca Peg Spaete Green Roofs Ray Stephenson

On the cover: As growers we often lose sight of the variability a single species can manifest. One plant on the bench does not a species make! In this issue Dawie Human, proprietor of Lifestyle Seeds in South Africa, relates a chance encounter with a population of Adenium oleifolium that produced the entire range of flower colors, shapes, and sizes seen on our cover. Cherish the sight: development threatens to drive the species into deeper obscurity. In cultivation, these caudiciform beauties are unnecessarily slow and rare, but growers in Florida, California, and Thailand are making progress.