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Succulent Society

The objectives of the Succulent Society are to promote knowledge, the cultivation and conservation of succulents and to make a contribution to the protection and conservation of all indigenous flora and their habitat by:

Co-operating with authorities and other bodies with the same objectives.
Supporting research on succulents financially and otherwise.
Providing information and issuing publications.
Establishing a reference library.
Establishing and developing a botanical garden
Re-establishing flora in its natural habitat.
Participating in conservation of plants and their habitat.
Making available cultivated seed and plant material.
Donating indigenous flora for cultivation in public gardens, parks and spaces.
Organising excursions, exhibitions and lectures.

In general, performing any function or activity on a discerning and organised basis towards observing and promoting the objects of the Society. The Succulent Society publishes the journal ALOE that appears quarterly. Articles in the journal range from popular information on the cultivation of the succulents to scientific descriptions of new succulent species. Colour photos of plants in habitat are included in each issue. The illustrations are helpful in the identification of plants, both in collections and in the veld. In the journal emphasis is placed on plants from Southern Africa, the rest of Africa and Madagascar, although succulents from the rest of the world also feature regularly. The journal has already attained international status and is highly esteemed among succulent enthusiasts the world over. Being an international journal the language used is English.

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