CSSA VOL.95, Summer 2023, No.2 Editorial Peter Breslin In Defense of Common Names Ron Parker The Huntington Botanical Gardens Presents the 2023 Offering of the International Succulent Introductions John N. Trager Steven Brack: A Man for All Seeds Roxie Esterle Collector's Spotlight: The arid Adaptations of Jeffery Lee Moore Gerard Bock Making a difference: the small but meaningful Cadereyta Regional Botanic Garden Beatriz Maruri Aguila A cultivar is born: the blond bombshell of "cv. breslinii", a unique form of Glandulicactus wrightii Tony Marino Cactus hunting in the distant south: an introduction to the cacti of Patagonia Aldo Delladdio Tricotyledonous cacti Root Gorelick Prelude to Namaqualand: Succulent Sights from Cape Town to Sutherland, South Africa Panayoti Kelaidis Book Review: Cool Plants for Hot Gardens, Second Edition, by Greg Starr Gerard Bock Book Review: Lithops: inside the plant, by Giuseppe Maria Piccione Steven Hammer

On the cover: Panayoti Kelaidis's encounter with Tulista pumila and a colorful Ruschia sp. on the way to Namaqualand. See the story inside.