EXPO pics

Without much of an introduction, here come the lithops pictures from the Tokyo Succulent Fair 2010.

I will post photos of the guys I bought soon as well :)

Succulent EXPO in Tokyo

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I'm finally back! Well, back in Nara. :)

This were two exhausting weeks: first the internship in Fukushima, then, without even coming home, a trip to Tokyo. I'm so tired I could sleep for a week but since I've managed to catch a cold on the last day sleeping is a bit difficult. Anyway...

I've got something to tell! I haven't planned it at all (couldn't find any info online) but I could visit this year's Tokyo Cactus and Succulent Fair! I went to the shop that is known to sell lithops once in a while (Station Ikebukuro, SEIBU building, 9th floor which is the roof). After actually finding a whole shop counter full of lithops and getting myself several plants I was told at the checkout that the Expo starts 20.03 and will be held exactly at this shop. So I went again 20.03 and could make a great lot of pictures: lithops, haworthiae, cacti etc. My knowledge of cacti and other succulents is very limited so I just tried to get the whole store on SD card so maybe you experts can find something interesting for yourselves :). There were quite some very beautiful and very expensive plants: I especially was amazed to see a teeny-tiny haworthia hybrid (?) for 35000 yen. I will post some pictures here soon but if you want them all just drop me a line in the comments (The tags are in japanese, so if you're interested in a particular plant I could try and figure it out for you). Although there were a lot of different lithops (all tagged) there were none of the japanese cultivars I longed to see: shimada's apricot, kousougyoku etc. Still, there were other interesting plants: I got myself a chocolate dorotheae de Boer I wanted, 'Top Red' karasmontana, C207 gesinae (which has a pretty lilac color for some reason) and 8 other lithops plants which were smiling at me (they do that sometimes, haha). I'm going to ship them with EMS to Germany sometime before I myself leave in August.