50多年的愛好和40多年的收集和積累，在各位同窗好友的幫助、鼓勵和支持下，終于在退休后接近80的途中，如愿將600余種多肉植物彩色圖譜呈現(xiàn)給大家。 

       在退休前借工作之便，偷閑到世界各地多肉植物的主要分布地區(qū)和各地區(qū)的植物園、植物公園拍照收集，有“仙人掌王國”之稱的墨西哥、美國東南部多個州的國家公園和自然分布地區(qū)、加勒比海一些仙人掌分布島嶼等；百合科蘆薈屬、番杏科部分種屬主要分布地區(qū)：南非、比勒陀尼亞、斯威士蘭以及它們的植物園。另外還到過南半球的新西蘭威靈頓植物園、澳大利亞墨爾本和悉尼植物園、東南亞印尼的茂密和巴厘島植物園、新加坡植物園、法國巴黎植物園、摩納哥植物園、加拿大溫哥華室內植物園等。當年也走遍了我國各大植物園：北京香山植物園、南京中山植物園、昆明植物園、西雙版納植物園、廈門植物園、深圳仙湖植物園、武漢植物園、廬山植物園、西安植物園、貴陽植物園、上海龍華植物園和華南植物園等，前后共收集四千多張照片和有關資料，再經多年整理、篩選、匯總和查閱相關資料，最后臨摹成畫與大家見面。 

        既然是手繪的畫，主要是將原始素材的每一種多肉植物通過照片、圖片臨摹加工成畫，由于作者并非專業(yè)繪畫之人，也非植物分類學家、園藝栽培專家，對于確定每種多肉植物的命名和形態(tài)分布描述，在多名專家指點下還算見得人，但我估計錯漏還是免不了的，敬請大家多多包涵。在本圖譜中，由于時間和專業(yè)水平等問題不能把一些栽培種的形態(tài)和出處加以介紹。 

       600余種手繪多肉植物圖譜是通過多人參與，照片整理、資料收集、中英文簡介、臨摹過程的指點、每種圖的掃描、出版等環(huán)節(jié)，少一個都不能完成，所以這本圖譜不只是作者本人的，而是所有參與者的，在此對他們表示謝意。 

        PROLOGUE 

        More than 50 years of love and 40 years of collection and accumulation, with the encouragement, support and assistance from great friends, finally at the edge of 80 years old, I have fulfilled my promise and now present these illustrations, which include more than 600 species of succulent plant, to you. 

       Before my retirement, by taking the advantage of business trip, I had visited many places, botanical gardens and botanical parks all around the world to collect photographs of succulent plants. I had been to Mexico, the cactus kingdom, some natural distribution areas and national parks of southeast America, several islands of Caribbean Sea; I had also been to South Africa and Swaziland, where are the major distribution areas of genus Aloe and several genera and species of family Aizoaceae; I had visited the Wellington Botanical Garden in New Zealand, Melbourne and Sydney Botanical Gardens in Australia, Kebon Raya Bogor and Bali Botanical Garden, Singapore Botanical Garden, Paris Botanical Garden in France, Monaco Botanical Garden, Vancouver Botanical Garden in Canada, and most of the botanical gardens in China, including Xiangshan Botanical Garden in Beijing, Zhongshan Botanical Garden in Nanjing, Kuming Botanical Garden, Xishuangbanna Botanical Garden, Xiamen Botanical Garden, Xianhu Botanical Garden in Shenzhen, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Lushan Botanical Garden, Xian Botanical Garden, Guiyang Botanical Garden, Longhua Botanical Garden in Shanghai and South China Botanical Garden in Guangzhou. More than 4000 pictures had been collected during these trips, after years of selection, organization, summary and review, I have finally finished these drawings. 

Since they are hand painted, all of the drawings are copies of the original photographs or pictures. And I am neither a professional painter nor a phytotaxonomist, I sincerely wish that you readers could forgive my mistakes in the nomenclature, morphology and distribution descriptions of these succulent plants. On account of time limit and short of professional skills, I am sorry that the morphology and distribution of some cultivars are not included in these illustrations. 

Without the help from my dear friends and colleagues, these hand painted drawing illustrations of over 600 succulent plant species would not have been finished. Hereby I deeply thank the ones who have helped me with the photograph organization, data collection, introduction in Chinese and English, hand painting direction, scan of all these pictures and publication. 后語 

      本圖譜能夠與讀者在猴年上半年見面和鑒賞，有賴于各方面的鼎力支持和贊助，特別是三和天賜公司徐金富董事長的全力贊助和支持，使出版關鍵問題得到完滿解決，在此表示十分感謝。另外高旭華高總、徐丹小姐徐總也在各方面給予了大力支持和贊助，在此一并表示感謝。出版社王斌先生以及參與本圖譜出版的有關人員，還有在描臨過程中給予指點和幫助的關照根先生也表示謝意。還有由于這六百多種多肉植物要確定它們的名稱不是容易的事，所幸中國科學院華南植物園的植物分類專家夏念和研究員為定名給予了指導、審核，做了大量工作，確保植物命名不出半點差錯，在此衷心感謝夏教授和他的學生�？傊�，對參與本圖譜出版工作的有關人士再次表示誠摯的謝意！ 

        朱亮峰 

        2016.2 

       AFTERWORD 

       Finally, with the great help and sponsorships from everyone around me, these illustrations could be presented to you readers in the first half of the Year of Monkey. Herein, I would like to offer my special thanks to Mr. Xu Jinfu, president of Tian Ci San He corporation, who has supported and sponsored me greatly, and helped me with the publication issues. I would also like to thank Mr. Gao Xuhua and Miss Xu Dan for their great supports and sponsorships. Additionally, I am truly grateful for the assistances from Mr. Wang Bin and others who have assisted me with the publication procedure. And I have been deeply appreciated that Mr. Guan Zhaogen have offered me advises and assistances during my hand-painting process. The nomenclature of over 600 succulent species is a time consuming and complicated work. Luckily, Prof. Xia Nianhe, phytotaxonomist of South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has offered advises and reviewed these nomenclatures to make sure they are correct and precise. Hence, I sincerely thank Prof. Xia and his students for their kindly help. All in all, I offer my deepest and most sincere thankfulness to everyone who have participated in the creation and publication of these illustrations! 

      Zhu Liangfen 

      Feb. 2016