When you visit Chiang Mai the same day the premiere Cactus & Succulent Fair is going on—you have to go, right? Well, I'm glad I did, because this was an opportunity to capture the late Chanin Thorut and my friend Home share their joy for cacti and succulents.


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This episode is devoted to botanist, Chanin Thorut. Chanin started his love of plants in early childhood—and later become a pioneer in several plant groups, including Hoya, Bromeliaceae, orchids, and cacti and succulents. During his professional career, he imported many foreign species for propagation, along with writing articles about them in leading house or gardening magazines in Thailand.

Chanin also explored many remote forests and discovered several rare, undescribed species, including a brand new Bulbophyllum from Khao Luang National Park in Nakornsri Thammarat Province, and later named it after Dr. Tem Smitinand as Bulbophyllum smitinandii Seidenf. & Thorut 1996.

In term of Bromeliads, Chanin is well known and a leading authorities in Hybridizing Dyckia. He imported the first batch from many different places and creating new hybrids in his backyard. Some of his well known hybrids are Dyckia 'Charlot', Dyckia 'Pharaoh', Dyckia 'Cleopatra', and also named several sports from other's seedlings or offsets that look very special; for example D. 'Diamond Crown', D. 'Yakuza' , and D. 'Tsunami'.

Chainin joined us on our trip but didn't come up the mountain, as he wasn't feeling well. He was later rushed to the hospital in Chiang Mai during the hike and passed away hours later at the hospital from heart failure on October 29. Chanin always shared his collection and thoughts to beginners.

He co-authored the ‘Succulent’ Book with Pijaya Vachajitpan and Pavaphon Supanantananont. It was later translated into Japanese.

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