Met ups with Dave Ferguson and Michelle Cloud-Hughes for lunch. Botanical trivia all around.
Learned that Cylindropuntia imbricata, the most common cholla around ABQ, was described from a 1820 painting of a cultivated specimen in England. Over in International Plant Names Index, it states, "Drawing by Duncanson of Cereus imbricatus, Received from Mr Hitchin of Norwich in the year 1820."
Apparently, the neotype is at Kew.
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