英国 The Succulent Plant Page（多肉植物主页）是由前癌症研究科学家 R. J. Hodgkiss 于 1995 年创立的全球性多肉植物科普资源站，托管在自有域名 succulent-plant.com 上，专注于收录与整理多肉植物的分类学、栽培学、园艺学与原产地信息。站点以学术性著称，从不销售活体植物或种子，而是以知识聚合的方式服务业余爱好者、园艺学生与专业研究人员，类似于图书馆式的数字资料库。Hodgkiss 在英国东南部的朝东日光温室中保持着自有的多肉活体收藏，用于核对网站上呈现的植物形态特征。
站主背景与创办宗旨
站主 R. J. Hodgkiss 是英国曼彻斯特人，曾在 Worcester College, Oxford 攻读生物化学，并在 Paterson Laboratories（现 Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute）师从 Margaret Fox 博士完成博士学位。其职业经历主要在 Mount Vernon Hospital 的 Gray Cancer Institute（前 Gray Laboratory）从事癌症放射治疗与多光子成像研究，1995 年起将业余时间投入多肉植物知识整理并建立了 The Succulent Plant Page。站主把科研工作者严谨的资料整理习惯带到了园艺领域：每个属、每个物种页面都附带拉丁学名词源、原始文献引用、分布范围与最新分类学修订备注。Aloaceae 页面详细说明了 Aloe 属基于 DNA 分类学的最新拆分（Aloiampelos、Aloidendron、Aristaloe、Gonialoe、Kumara 等），Euphorbiaceae 页面则记录了 Monadenium 被并入 Euphorbia 后的旧属废弃情况，这类学术性细节是普通苗圃网站很少提供的内容。
科属数据库与品种图鉴
站点的核心资源是覆盖 60 多个科、300 多个属的多肉植物分类数据库。Families 索引页按照双子叶植物（Dicotyledons）的目（Order）层级逐条列出可作为多肉植物栽培的科与属——从 Apiales 的 Araliaceae（含 Cussonia 树形多肉）到 Caryophyllales 的 Cactaceae（含 Pereskioideae、Opuntioideae、Cactoideae 三个亚科），再到 Saxifragales 的 Crassulaceae 家族（含 Hylotelephium、Jovibarba、Kalanchoe、Pachyphytum、Sedum 等）。每个大科下面又有专门页面：Agavaceae 页面以近 4 万字符介绍龙舌兰属 200 余个已承认物种，附带原产地、生长海拔、花期与传粉生态学；Aloaceae 页面以近 5 万字符详述芦荟属 450 余种；Cactaceae 主页面以近 9 万字符系统介绍仙人掌科 4 个亚科 100 余属。每个物种都配有原产地、分布海拔、形态特征、园艺栽培要点与图像链接，Images 索引页则汇总所有已经拍摄与登记的多肉物种插图（Agave 60 余种、Aloe 大量物种、仙人掌科 100 余属代表种等），方便用户按形态反查物种名。
栽培繁殖与病虫害知识
站点设有独立的栽培（cultivation）、施肥（fertiliser）、光照（light）、病虫害（pests）、繁殖（propagation）、播种（seed）专题页面，按经验法则整理出从盆栽选择、土壤配方、浇水频率、防寒到种子春化的完整操作链。栽培页明确指出”过度浇水是杀死多肉的头号原因”、建议”明亮的窗台或温室全日照”、”夏季每周浇水一次，凉爽季节每两周一次”，并按塑料盆与陶盆的优劣对比给出选择建议；光照页以流明、勒克斯、英尺烛光等单位解释光通量与光强的换算关系；病虫害页以三万余字符系统介绍介壳虫、红蜘蛛、真菌病害与栽培环境失衡引起的生理障碍，每种问题都附有化学防治与生物防治建议并强调使用农药时需佩戴手套、口罩与护目镜；繁殖页涵盖扦插、嫁接、分株与组培基础；播种页详述多肉种子寿命、休眠打破与幼苗管理，对 Lithops、Conophytum 等小型多肉特别有参考价值。
词表与资源导航
站点附带的 Botanical Glossary（植物学词表）按字母 A 到 Z 拆分 24 个独立子页面，是面向园艺爱好者与翻译工作者的英文专业词表，涵盖植物形态学、解剖学与分类学术语。此外，Home Page 导航收录 1390 余个与多肉植物相关的外部 web-domain 资源（搜索引挚内置），用户可通过 site 限定搜索快速定位学术、协会与苗圃站点；Cactus & Succulent Societies 页面汇总了各国地方性多肉协会索引；rjhpublications 页面则整理了站主本人在癌症研究领域发表的 70 余篇学术论文，反映其科研背景。新版网站正逐步撤下商业广告，转变为完全免费、非营利性的园艺知识资源站。
The Succulent Plant Page is a global succulent-plant knowledge resource founded in 1995 by former cancer researcher R. J. Hodgkiss, a native Mancunian now based in south-east England, hosted at the self-owned domain succulent-plant.com. The site functions as a digital library of succulent-plant taxonomy, cultivation and horticulture, and is operated as a non-commercial reference: it sells neither plants nor seed, and Hodgkiss instead maintains his own living collection in an east-facing conservatory to cross-check the morphological detail of every species page.
About the Founder and Site Mission
R. J. Hodgkiss read Biochemistry at Worcester College, Oxford, then completed his PhD under the late Dr. Margaret Fox at the Paterson Laboratories (now Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute). His professional career centred on the Gray Cancer Institute (formerly the Gray Laboratory) at Mount Vernon Hospital, where he studied redox-active radiation modifiers, bioreductive probes for tumour hypoxia and multi-photon imaging of tissues. In 1995 he began applying that same rigorous approach to documenting succulent plants and launched the present website. The Aloaceae page tracks the DNA-based split of the old genus Aloe into Aloe, Aloiampelos, Aloidendron, Aristaloe, Gonialoe and Kumara, and notes that Haworthia is now divided into Haworthia, Haworthiopsis and Tulista; the Euphorbiaceae page records the absorption of Monadenium into Euphorbia, with Cridoscolus, Elaeophorbia, Endadenium, Jatropha, Pedilanthus, Phyllanthus, Stenadenium and Synadenium retained as separate genera. Such taxonomic detail is rarely offered by commercial nurseries.
Family Database and Species Index
The site’s central resource is a classification database covering more than 60 families and 300 genera of succulent plants. The Families index lists dicotyledonous orders and families, from Apiales (Araliaceae with the arborescent Cussonia) through Caryophyllales (Cactaceae, with subfamilies Pereskioideae, Opuntioideae and Cactoideae) to Saxifragales (Crassulaceae with Hylotelephium, Jovibarba, Kalanchoe, Pachyphytum, Sedum, etc.). Each major family has its own in-depth page: Agavaceae runs to 39,000 characters covering some 200 accepted Agave species together with elevation, distribution and bat-pollination notes; Aloaceae runs to 47,000 characters on more than 450 Aloe species; the Cactaceae main page runs to 85,000 characters covering over 100 genera across the four subfamilies. Every species carries its Latin name, type locality, distribution range, morphological description, horticultural guidance and image links, and the Images index brings together every illustrated succulent so visitors can reverse-search a plant they have photographed.
Cultivation, Propagation and Pest Management
Dedicated cultivation, fertiliser, light, pests, propagation and seed pages translate decades of grower experience into a complete operational chain from pot selection to seed stratification. The cultivation page notes that “over-watering kills more succulents than anything else”, recommends a bright window-ledge or full sun in a greenhouse, and advises weekly watering in summer and fortnightly in cool weather, with a side-by-side comparison of plastic and clay pots. The light page converts lumens, lux and foot-candles so growers can read grow-lamp specifications; the pests page (31,000 characters) surveys mealybug, red spider mite, fungal rots and the physiological disorders caused by cultural imbalance, with chemical and biological control options and a strong reminder to wear gloves, a face mask and goggles. The propagation page covers cuttings, grafting, division and basic tissue culture, while the seed page explains seed longevity, dormancy breaking and seedling management for genera such as Lithops and Conophytum.
Glossary and Resource Navigation
The site’s Botanical Glossary is split into 24 letter-by-letter subpages (A to Z) and serves as a working English-Chinese reference for morphology, anatomy and taxonomic terminology. The home page indexes 1,390+ succulent-related web domains, so visitors can run a site-restricted search straight from the front door to locate academic, society or nursery resources; the Cactus & Succulent Societies page aggregates links to local and national societies worldwide, and the rjhpublications page lists the more than 70 peer-reviewed cancer-research papers Hodgkiss has authored, anchoring the horticultural work in his scientific background. The current site is being migrated to an advert-free model and functions purely as a non-profit knowledge archive.
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