养多肉、玩多肉、画多肉、赏多肉，一本搞定，近年来多肉植物因为好养、耐旱，深受广大植物爱好者的喜爱，本书作者几年来走遍世界各地欣赏多肉植物的同时并手绘了600多幅多肉植物，因为多肉植物特别是仙人掌类植物刺多十分难画，这些作者凝聚了作者很多心血，同时本书曾经出版过仙人掌与多肉植物一书并且已经销售一空，也是为这本书的市场补充。
50多年的爱好和40多年的收集和积累，在各位同窗好友的帮助、鼓励和支持下，终于在退休后接近80的途中，如愿将600余种多肉植物彩色图谱呈现给大家。
在退休前借工作之便，偷闲到世界各地多肉植物的主要分布地区和各地区的植物园、植物公园拍照收集，有“仙人掌王国”之称的墨西哥、美国东南部多个州的国家公园和自然分布地区、加勒比海一些仙人掌分布岛屿等；百合科芦荟属、番杏科部分种属主要分布地区：南非、比勒陀尼亚、斯威士兰以及它们的植物园。另外还到过南半球的新西兰威灵顿植物园、澳大利亚墨尔本和悉尼植物园、东南亚印尼的茂密和巴厘岛植物园、新加坡植物园、法国巴黎植物园、摩纳哥植物园、加拿大温哥华室内植物园等。当年也走遍了我国各大植物园：北京香山植物园、南京中山植物园、昆明植物园、西双版纳植物园、厦门植物园、深圳仙湖植物园、武汉植物园、庐山植物园、西安植物园、贵阳植物园、上海龙华植物园和华南植物园等，前后共收集四千多张照片和有关资料，再经多年整理、筛选、汇总和查阅相关资料，最后临摹成画与大家见面。
既然是手绘的画，主要是将原始素材的每一种多肉植物通过照片、图片临摹加工成画，由于作者并非专业绘画之人，也非植物分类学家、园艺栽培专家，对于确定每种多肉植物的命名和形态分布描述，在多名专家指点下还算见得人，但我估计错漏还是免不了的，敬请大家多多包涵。在本图谱中，由于时间和专业水平等问题不能把一些栽培种的形态和出处加以介绍。
600余种手绘多肉植物图谱是通过多人参与，照片整理、资料收集、中英文简介、临摹过程的指点、每种图的扫描、出版等环节，少一个都不能完成，所以这本图谱不只是作者本人的，而是所有参与者的，在此对他们表示谢意。
PROLOGUE
More than 50 years of love and 40 years of collection and accumulation, with the encouragement, support and assistance from great friends, finally at the edge of 80 years old, I have fulfilled my promise and now present these illustrations, which include more than 600 species of succulent plant, to you.
Before my retirement, by taking the advantage of business trip, I had visited many places, botanical gardens and botanical parks all around the world to collect photographs of succulent plants. I had been to Mexico, the cactus kingdom, some natural distribution areas and national parks of southeast America, several islands of Caribbean Sea; I had also been to South Africa and Swaziland, where are the major distribution areas of genus Aloe and several genera and species of family Aizoaceae; I had visited the Wellington Botanical Garden in New Zealand, Melbourne and Sydney Botanical Gardens in Australia, Kebon Raya Bogor and Bali Botanical Garden, Singapore Botanical Garden, Paris Botanical Garden in France, Monaco Botanical Garden, Vancouver Botanical Garden in Canada, and most of the botanical gardens in China, including Xiangshan Botanical Garden in Beijing, Zhongshan Botanical Garden in Nanjing, Kuming Botanical Garden, Xishuangbanna Botanical Garden, Xiamen Botanical Garden, Xianhu Botanical Garden in Shenzhen, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Lushan Botanical Garden, Xian Botanical Garden, Guiyang Botanical Garden, Longhua Botanical Garden in Shanghai and South China Botanical Garden in Guangzhou. More than 4000 pictures had been collected during these trips, after years of selection, organization, summary and review, I have finally finished these drawings.
Since they are hand painted, all of the drawings are copies of the original photographs or pictures. And I am neither a professional painter nor a phytotaxonomist, I sincerely wish that you readers could forgive my mistakes in the nomenclature, morphology and distribution descriptions of these succulent plants. On account of time limit and short of professional skills, I am sorry that the morphology and distribution of some cultivars are not included in these illustrations.
Without the help from my dear friends and colleagues, these hand painted drawing illustrations of over 600 succulent plant species would not have been finished. Hereby I deeply thank the ones who have helped me with the photograph organization, data collection, introduction in Chinese and English, hand painting direction, scan of all these pictures and publication. 后语
本图谱能够与读者在猴年上半年见面和鉴赏，有赖于各方面的鼎力支持和赞助，特别是三和天赐公司徐金富董事长的全力赞助和支持，使出版关键问题得到完满解决，在此表示十分感谢。另外高旭华高总、徐丹小姐徐总也在各方面给予了大力支持和赞助，在此一并表示感谢。出版社王斌先生以及参与本图谱出版的有关人员，还有在描临过程中给予指点和帮助的关照根先生也表示谢意。还有由于这六百多种多肉植物要确定它们的名称不是容易的事，所幸中国科学院华南植物园的植物分类专家夏念和研究员为定名给予了指导、审核，做了大量工作，确保植物命名不出半点差错，在此衷心感谢夏教授和他的学生。总之，对参与本图谱出版工作的有关人士再次表示诚挚的谢意！
朱亮峰
2016.2
AFTERWORD
Finally, with the great help and sponsorships from everyone around me, these illustrations could be presented to you readers in the first half of the Year of Monkey. Herein, I would like to offer my special thanks to Mr. Xu Jinfu, president of Tian Ci San He corporation, who has supported and sponsored me greatly, and helped me with the publication issues. I would also like to thank Mr. Gao Xuhua and Miss Xu Dan for their great supports and sponsorships. Additionally, I am truly grateful for the assistances from Mr. Wang Bin and others who have assisted me with the publication procedure. And I have been deeply appreciated that Mr. Guan Zhaogen have offered me advises and assistances during my hand-painting process. The nomenclature of over 600 succulent species is a time consuming and complicated work. Luckily, Prof. Xia Nianhe, phytotaxonomist of South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has offered advises and reviewed these nomenclatures to make sure they are correct and precise. Hence, I sincerely thank Prof. Xia and his students for their kindly help. All in all, I offer my deepest and most sincere thankfulness to everyone who have participated in the creation and publication of these illustrations!
Zhu Liangfen
Feb. 2016
朱亮锋，教授，研究员，汉族，1937年1月出生于广州，1960年毕业于中山大学化学系，1964年就在中国科学院华南植物研究所从事植物化学和植物资源学的研究，曾任华南植物研究所植物资源研究室副主任、主任，从1987年开始从事芦荟和中药材研究开发工作，曾任联合国教科文组织（UNESCO）亚洲及太平洋地区药用植物和芳香植物情报网络（APINMAP）联络员和中国国家中心负责人。1989年获国务院有突出贡献科学家津贴；1999年获国际精油和香料行业联盟（IFEAT）成就奖章。1999年退休。
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