Pachycaul succulents: Pachycauls, Bottle-,Barrel-And Elephant-Trees and Their Kin a Collector's Miscellany. Strawberry Press, Mill Valley, California, USA. Rowley, Gordon (1992) Succulent Compositae: Senecio & Othonna. Strawberry Press, Mill Valley, California, USA. Rowley, Gordon (1992) Didiereaceae, Cacti of the Old World. Oxford. Rowley, Gordon (1995) Anacampseros, Avonia, Grahamia. Oxford. Rowley, Gordon (1997) A History of Succulent Plants. Strawberry Press, Mill Valley, California, USA. Rowley, Gordon (1999) Pachypodium and Adenium. Southampton. Rowley, Gordon (2003) Crassula, A Grower's Guide. Cactus and Co libre, Venegono, Italy. Also Russian and Italian editions. Rowley, Gordon (2006) Teratopia: The World of Cristate and Variegated Succulents. Cactus and Co libre, Tradante, Italy. Also Italian edition. Rowley, Gordon (2017) Succulents in cultivation - breeding new cultivars. British Cactus and Succulence Society, Hornchurch, Essex. Awards and honours Rowley was awarded Life membership of the National Cactus and Succulent Society in 1981 after becoming a Fellow in 1956. From 1966 to 1976 Rowley was President of the African Succulent Plant Society. In 1979 Rowley was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society for his work with cacti and succulents. He was awarded the Allan Dyer Prize by the Succulent Society of South Africa in 2001, and the Myron Kimnach Lifetime Achievement Award by the Cactus and Succulent Society of America in 2013. Plants named after him include: Curio rowleyanus (syn. Senecio rowleyanus H.Jacobsen 1968), also called the string-of-pearls or string-of-beads. Lobivia rowleyi I.Itô 1957 Pygmaeocereus rowleyanus Backeb. 1962 Echinopsis rowleyi H.Friedrich 1974 References 1921 births 2019 deaths 20th-century British botanists Plant collectors Veitch Memorial Medal recipients Alumni of King's College London Academics of the University of Reading