• FLOWER RESEARCH JOURNAL
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.62-66
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• 2009

This study was conducted to investigate the market status and favorite trend of the main importing country of grafted cacti from Korea. The exporting of grafted cacti in Korean has been stagnated in these year. Korea exported grafted cacti to Netherlands 52.1%, followed by USA 14.7%, Canada 9.8%, Japan 2.4%, and Australia 1.9% among 2,522 thousand$ in 2008. Most of exporting grafted cactus was Gymnocalycium mihanovichill above 80%, the rest followed Chamaecereus silvestrii and then Noyocactus scopa. Most of countries favorite big one and various color of Gymnocalycium mihanovichill, however, Australia and Japan prefer red one.