Bemutatom Füleki Józsefet

József Füleki is one of the well-known members of the Hungarian Cactus Society. He got his first cactus offspring in the summer of 1966. In 1971, he met Péter Kern first on a cactus exhibition hold in the "Csili" Culture House, who invited him to the first and founding meeting of the Hungarian Cactus Society. He was there at that meeting but he only payed the membership fee in the autumn of that year, thus he is not a founding member, but, indeed, he has one of the oldest memberships in the society. In the autumn of 1971, Péter Kern mentioned in his talk that there are no special fact collections in Hungary in cacti. Thus, as a young man, József Füleki decided to establish a special fact collection. That time he has 26 Mammillaria specimens from his 50 plants altogether. From that time he only collected Mammillaria taxa. He got contacted with experts of the genus, such as Miklós Nagysurányi and Gyula Szutorisz who gave and sell him numerous plants. In 1978, he moved to Vecsés and in the autumn of 1982, he finished his conservatory. On a group meeting of the Mammillaria genus, someone started to talk about the question of the special fact collections in the genus Mammillaria. As a result, Péter Pintér, Miklós Nagysurányi and Gyula Szutorisz established the rules and regulations of the special fact collections. József Füleki applied to this title in 1988. His collection was reviewed by Zoltán Mészáros, Miklós Nagysurányi and Gyula Szutorisz. His collection was awarded by the Special Mammillaria Fact Collection title on the 15th January 1989. He helped much at the cactus exhibitions hold in the Budapest Zoo. He organised the last three exhibitions with Gyula Mánfai there. Of course, there are not any collections that are complete in the genus Mammillaria, nor his one. The organisation of his collection is based on the system of Hunt. Nevertheless, the ecological needs of the plants have a priority in the positioning of his plants.