I decided to refresh your understanding of the information
attached to each picture.
On this picture we see:
Matucana = the genus of the plant; this corresponds to your last
name.
haynei = the species; this corresponds to your given name.
atrospina = this third name corresponds to endless arguments; it
may be a subspecies, a variety, etc. Since we have trouble defining
species (I don’t - it’s a population capable of reproducing individuals that
look much alike) this third name feeds our human need to be really nasty to
each other.
KK536 = This is a “collection number”. The pattern is always one
or more letters, in this case KK, which identify the collector, in this case
Karel Knitze, followed by a number. The number is what KK gave the
collected plant or seed batch in his field notes. There should be
other information in this notebook, starting with where the plant material
was collected. In principle, if you buy any plant material (seeds,
plants) from any seller on earth having this number attached, you should get
something that’s a direct descendant from the original KK536. (My
collections start with SNL.)
MG970.232 = This is the Mesa Garden (MG) catalog number for this
plant. I don’t mean to be a shill for Mesa Garden, but it is the
source for an amazing number of the worlds cacti and succulent plants and
seeds. They are at least 99% reliable in my experience. Others
in the world are less so. I’ve never actually asked Steven Brack, the
now former owner, but this business in Belen, New Mexico, might be the major
world’s supplier of cactus and succulent seeds. The point of giving
this number is if you really like the plant pictured, you can get usually
seeds, sometimes plants, from Mesa Garden. If you don’t like dealing
with Mesa Garden, fall back on the collection number and buy the seed from
some other business. Chances are you’ll be buying Mesa Garden seeds
for two to ten times (or more!) the Mesa Garden price. (Mesa Garden is
continuing as I write under new ownership.)
11/12/16 = This is the date I took the picture. Every mailing
has pictures taken since the last mailing. I can’t remember ever using
an older picture in any mailing.
Then copious notes....