PACHYFORMS a guide to growing Caudiciform and Pachycaul Plants

"These were not twiggy herbs but plants with substance, weight, curves, and shadows that impacted the mind like great abstract sculptures. They suggested alien life forms, flying saucers, flesh, intertwined bodies, amorphous beasts, crystalline structures, rock, lava, monoliths.""They are so unlike the stereotypes of plant forms that, for the inexperienced, attending an annual cactus and succulent show for the first time is like being introduced to an alien world. The terms 'otherworldly', 'out of a science fiction movie', and 'lunar' are regularly applied when describing these plants as well as some ofthe landscapes they inhabit. No other group quite compares in the long-term artistic and aesthetic rewards provided from growing these species." Pachyforms is a complete guide to the selection and cultivation of the increasingly popular group of plants known as  caudiciforms and pachycauls, species that develop thick bodies with sculptural forms. In Pachyforms, you will find information