Award-Winning Plants 2017-2024

These articles are about the growing of plants that won the highest honors at the CACSS Annual Show through 2024. No articles for 2020, 2021 and 2022 due to not having shows during COVID.

UPDATED June 2025

• Adenium arabicum by Tom Briggs, 8/23
• Adenium ‘Mini’ by Dan Smith, 12/18, page 6
• Adenium ‘Mini-star’ by Dan Smith,12/19, page 8
• Adromischus maculatus by Sue Hakala, 12/18, page 9
• Aeonium ‘Zwartkop’ by Sue Tyrell, 5/23, page 9
• Agave utahensis var. eborispina by Rich Zeh, 5/23
• Agave victoriae-reginae by Sue Hakala, 6/18, page 15
• Aloe by Cindy Capek, 11/19, page 9
• Aloe castilloniae by Nick Diomede, 8/23
• Aloe descoingsii by Brenna Wasson, 10/17, page 7
• Aloe dorotheae by Lauren Marks, 8/18, page 9
• Aloe hybrid ‘Blizzard’ by Bonnie Scott, 1/18, page 7
• Aloe melanacantha var. erinacea by Thom Young, 7/18, page 5
• Ariocarpus by Scott McMahon, 7/24, page 8
• Ariocarpus collection by Jacob Gibbons, 9/24, page 22
• Ariocarpus fissuratus var. lloydii by Pam Edsall, 10/18, page 6
• Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus var. elephantidens by Scott McMahon, 8/19, page 9
• Astrophytum caput-medusa by Pat Adler, 2/23, page 5
• Astrophytum caput-medusa seedling by Ken Luiten, 10/19, page 7
• Browingia sp. by Johnny Briggs, 9/19, page 7
• Cereus peruvianus f. monstrose by Ken Luiten, 9/18, page 10
• Conophytum collection by Cliff Fielding, 6/18, page 13
• Conophytum marginatum by Cliff Fielding, 12/19, page 7
• Copiapoa collection by Cliff Fielding, 9/19, page 8
• Copiapoa tenuissima monstrose by Scott McMahon, 12/17, page 10
• Cylindropuntia ramosissima cristate by Joni Hamari, 7/24, page 18, 5/23, page 19
• Cyphostemma cv. ‘Fat Bastard,’ by George Kazaka, 8/18, page 10
• Dudleya greenii ‘Anacapa’ by Sue Tyrrel, 10/19, page 9
• Echeveria sp. by Nils Kindgren, 1/18, page 11
• Echinobivia ‘Rainbow Bursts’ by Tom Briggs, 8/19, page 8
• Echinocereus pacificus by Pam Edsall, 11/18, page 16
• Echinocereus pacificus by Pam Edsall, 6/18, page 14
• Echinocereus pacificus by Pam Edsall, 11/17, page 4
• Epiphytic cactus by Ken Luiten, 10/18, page 7
• Epithelantha micromeris by Jacob Gibbons, 8/24, page 10
• Epithelantha micromeris v. greggii by Steve Plath, 9/17, page 15
• Escobaria robbinsorum by Cliff Fielding, 11/19, page 11
• Euphorbia cylindrifolia subsp. tuberifera by Don Begley, 6/24, page 14
• Escobaria robbinsorum by Cliff Fielding, 11/18, page 14
• Euphorbia decaryi var. gulliminiana by Loran Rodewald, 9/17, page 14
• Euphorbia francoisii by Julie Plath, 2/18, page 11
• Euphorbia francoisii by Scott McMahon, 10/24, page 15
• Euphorbia gymnocalycioides by Scott McMahon, 10/19, page 10
• Euphorbia horrida by Gard Roper, 8/17, page 7
• Euphorbia knuthii by Mike Gallagher, 7/17, page 14
• Ferocactus acanthodes by Lee Brownson, 8/24, page 9
• Ferocactus acanthodes by Sue Hakala, 8/19 page 10
• Fouquieria fasciculata by Steve Plath, 2/18, page 13
• Gasteria by Wendy Barrett, 9/18, page 19
• Gasteria armstrongii by Pam Edsall, 7/18, page 7, 11/17, page 5
• Gasteria brachyphylla by Janet Karasz, 11/19, page 10
• Gasteria brachyphylla by Wendy Barrett, 7/23
• Gasteria excelsa by Joni Hamari, 9/24, page 6
• Gasteria ‘Ox Tongue’ by Elaine Hu, 6/19, page 8
• Glottiphyllum nelii by Mike Gallagher, 12/17, page 11
• Gymnocalycium castellanosii by Nancy Mumpton 6/24, page 8
• Haworthia bayeri by Elaine Hu, 7/24, page 10
• Haworthia koelmaniorum by Pam Edsall, 6/19, page 10
• Haworthia limifolia striata by Rich Zeh, 1/18, page 13
• Haworthia pumila by Claudia Helfgott, 8/18, page 11
• Haworthia ‘Snowball’ x H. ‘Christmas Light’ x H. pygmaea by N. Mark Kramoltz, 6/24, page 16
• Huernia collection by Michelle Schrade, 10/24, page 5
• Jatropha cuneata by Wendy Barrett, 12/18, page 7
• Lithops collection by Cliff Fielding, 7/23
• Lithops sp. by Cliff Fielding, 1/18, page 15
• Lithops sp. by Johnny Briggs, 7/19, page 9
• Lithops hookeri by Cliff Fielding, 9/18, page 11
• Lithops leslieii by Danny Briggs, 5/18, page 12
• Mammillaria albilanata by Steve and Julie Plath, 1/18, page 11
• Mammillaria baumii by Sue Hakala, 7/24, page 19
• Mammillaria magnifica by Sue Hakala, 12/17, page 12
• Mammillaria mazatlanensis by Pam Edsall, 7/19, page 10
• Mammillaria petterssonii var. saltensis by Sue Hakala, 11/18, page
• Mammillaria spinosissima cv. ‘Un Pico’ by Marianna Hancin, 6/19, page 9
• Mammillaria voburnensis subsp. voburnensis by Sue Hakala, 7/23
• Melocactus matanzanus monstrose by Tom Briggs, 7/18, page 6
• Obregonia denegrii by Ryan Watson, 10/17, page 6
• Obregonia denegrii by Sue Tyrell, 6/23, page 3
• Obregonia denegrii by Wendy Barrett, 8/24, page 17
• Pachypodium brevicaule by Sue Hakala, 9/24, page 13
• Parodia columnaris by Scott McMahon, 9/19, page 9
• Parodia scopa ssp. murielle by Sue Hakala, 7/17, page 15
• Pelecyphora aselliformis by Scott McMahon, 8/24, page 21
• Puna clavarioides by JC Succulents LLC, 5/23
• Sansevieria pinguicula by Wendy Barrett, 9/23
• Stenocereus griseus by Johnny Briggs, 5/18, page 13
• Succulent Collection by Michelle Schrade, 10/24, page 6
• Tephrocactus bonnieae by Sue Hakala, 9/18, page 12
• Tephrocactus pentlandii by Jacob Gibbons, 6/24, page 9
• Tephrocactus weberi by Lois Schneberger, 8/17, page 8
• Tourmeya papyracantha by Anthony Wray, 7/19, page 8
• Welwitschia mirabilis by Dan Smith, 1/18, page 8