QUEPO 23 - 2009 Contents:

• 1.1 Gardens. Cactus Garden 'Aniceto Arce': J. Pizarro et al. The authors visited this garden in La Paz, Bolivia and made this report of the cacti genera and species they found.
• 1.2 Zoology. Cacti and Goats in Mexiico. Sandra Fernandez. The Peruvian biologist Sandra Fernandez studied the relationship between the goats and some Mexican cacti species as seeds dispersers.
• 1.3 Chemistry. Mescalin content and ecology of Peruvian Triciocereus. Mijail Cjuno et al These researchers from Cuzco's University San Antonio Abad studied several Trichocereus specimens looking for mescalin content and they relate their results with the original place of the samples.
• 1.4 Cactus. Cacti from the hills around Lima. Meylin Vasquez Lam The author visited the «lomas» in Carabayllo and Villa Maria del Triunfo around Lima city and this is a report of the cacti she found.
• 2.1 Art. «Madre campesina.» «Craso» This well known oil-on-canvas painting by the Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros is shown here because of the cactus depicted.
• 2.2 Philately. Peruvian endemicCactus. «Cactofilico» The Peruvian Postal Service (Serpost) issued a three stamps series depicting three Peruvian endemic cacti species reported here.
• 2.3.1 Literature. Oral Literature. Orlando Granda. An example of popular, anonymous oral literature is compiled here, saving it for the future generations.
• 2.3.2 Literature. «ElQuisco». Oriana Pardo. The Chilean teacher Jose Morales wrote this nice poem describing a cactus species that we reproduce here thanks to Oriana Pardo
• 2.4 Report. Xll Conabot. Carlos Ostolaza. The twelveth Peruvian Botanical Congress took place in Puerto Maldonado, capital city of Madre de Dios Department in the Peruvian jungle. This is a report of that important meeting.
• 3.1 Cactus. Haagespostoas. Carlos Ostolaza Nano. Intergeneric cacti hybrids are more or less frequent between Espostoas and Haageocereus. This is a report about these hybrids.
• 3.2 Cactus. Cacti from Tumbes Province. Wilder Lozada. The author reports the cacti species found in this northern Peruvian province.
• 3.3 Cactus. Botanic Nomenclature in Cactaceae. Aldo Ceroni. The importance and meaning of the scientific names applied to cacti is explained here with priority given to Peruvian species
• 3.4 Cactus. Peruvian Cactus Seeds. Natali Ramirez. The author studied the morphology of seven Peruvian cacti species found north of Lima.
• 4.1 Report. Cactus from Tacna. Jose Pizarro Neyra. This is a brief report of some activities related with cacti that took place in Tacna city, in southern Peru.
• 4.2 Confidential. «Specstador» Specs' main activities during the second semester of the last year and the first semester of this year are described.
• 4.3 Specs' Library. A list of the books and journals received by exchange of Quepo in the last year is presented here.
• 4.4 Abstracts. Summary in English language of all the articles of this issue
• 4.5 Revista de Libros. Cuadernos de Suculencia 2 Mr. Eduardo Carbonell has written a nice book dealing with the subfamily Sempervivoideae of the Crassulaceae family. It includes the six genera and the hybrids between them.