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Message:	[quote author=bixaorellana board=gardening thread=2180 post=92833 time=1287340215]What a beauty that is, Tod! I've been trying to identify it. Probably Mick will be able to pinpoint exactly what it is. Here's a good page on various Adenia: http://www.miles2go.com/suc1.htm & from the same site, the page on Pachpodia: http://www.miles2go.com/suc1.htm Click on the names to see the pictures. Image galleries: http://adenium.tucsoncactus.org/species.html[/quote] Expand
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Posted by mickthecactus on Aug 27, 2010, 12:20pm

In oder of picture -

Haworthia limifolia variegate
Haworthia nigra
Haworthia reinwardtii f. olivacea (mine)
Aloe plicatilis (mine)
Aloe erinacea (wish it was mine - it's one of the most perfect plants I have seen)
Various Haworthias.

Here's some more -

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Posted by mickthecactus on Sept 1, 2010, 4:24pm

Lapidaria margaretae just coming into flower -

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Posted by bixaorellana on Sept 1, 2010, 4:32pm

Aaaahhhhggghh ~~ you have GOT to stop posting pictures of the things for which I most yearn!

I would kill for that Adenium, with its quilty leaves and excellent form.

I adore the darling lithops on the right. And the pale, blooming beauty makes me reconsider what I always say about succulents -- that they're so great on their own, who cares if they bloom or not.

Isn't "Lapidaria margaretae" an argument all in itself for using Latin binomials?!

Posted by mickthecactus on Sept 7, 2010, 10:48am

I'd kill for the second one down - Dorstenia gigas.

Lapidaria is a wonderful name - describes it perfectly. Incidentally about another 4 buds have opened now so it's coveerd in bloom. I've won a few prizes with this - you don't often get it to this size.

Posted by mickthecactus on Sept 7, 2010, 12:08pm

I'm very fond of Aloes - here are a few of the bigger ones -

A. capitata v gneissicola -

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A. plicatilis

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A. ferox. This stays out all year round but is heavily wrapped up in winter.

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Posted by kerouac2 on Sept 7, 2010, 2:39pm

I think I saw some of those growing in the Tintin album "The Mysterious Island"

Posted by bixaorellana on Sept 7, 2010, 4:17pm

Ahh -- that beauty I called an Adenium is a Dorsteria? Thanks for that.

Your aloes are wonderful. I've yearned over pictures of A. plicatilis, but have never seen it around here. Keep a look-out for A. mutans, which develops into a really handsome plant.

Posted by mickthecactus on Sept 7, 2010, 4:21pm

A. mutans? I must look that up then.

All those Aloes were originally from seed btw.

Posted by mickthecactus on Sept 7, 2010, 4:25pm

Mutans seems to be synonymous with greatheadii and davyana both of which I have although not of any great size yet.

Posted by bixaorellana on Sept 8, 2010, 11:28pm

You'll love it, with its dark green, well-displayed leaves and the very definite "painted" marks on them.

Gosh, Mick -- it's too bad you don't live closer. I could give you a ton of Agave potatorum (aka A. isthmensis) -- the little cutie on the right in the 4th pic of #60. It's a native of this state and has reproduced like mad.

And speaking of agave, this isn't one, but it's Echeveria agavoides, another plant happy to offset.
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Posted by mickthecactus on Sept 9, 2010, 8:00am

I don't grow many Echeverias but agavoides is very handsome. There is a cloen around with heavily red tipped leaves which is very handsome.

Do you grow E. lauii? A mexican native.

Here it is -

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Posted by bixaorellana on Sept 11, 2010, 7:05pm

Mick, if you look at my picture closely, you'll see the remnants of red tint on the leaves. It's most dramatic when in full sun. That is the western exposure on my porch, but those poor plants haven't seen extended full sun for so long, they've forgotten what it is. There is sun in that photo, but it was weak and brief.

I've yearned after E. lauii in books, but have never seen it growing nor for sale around here.

Posted by bixaorellana on Sept 15, 2010, 11:30pm

*sings* Look what I got! Look what I got!

http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Agavaceae/Agave_filifera.html

A friend of mine got this for me a couple of weeks ago, but I just got it today. I was thrilled, as it so closely resembles A. Victorias-reginae, an agave I love.

The picture in the link above has yucky coloring, but shows the markings nicely.

The color is more like this:
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Posted by mickthecactus on Sept 20, 2010, 12:48pm

That's a beauty Bixa. I have a couple of miniature filiferas. Must take some pictures.

Posted by kerouac2 on Sept 20, 2010, 1:54pm

Okay, everything in nature has a purpose -- what are the threads for?

Posted by onlymark on Sept 20, 2010, 3:55pm

They detect the wind direction as the plant is able to turn somewhat on it's roots. When there is a cold wind it turns a little away from it to protect the soft parts and the seeds.

Posted by bixaorellana on Sept 20, 2010, 4:01pm

Really?!!! I never knew that. Pretty amazing adaptation.

Posted by mickthecactus on Sept 24, 2010, 4:09pm

Sept 20, 2010, 3:55pm, onlymark wrote:

They detect the wind direction as the plant is able to turn somewhat on it's roots. When there is a cold wind it turns a little away from it to protect the soft parts and the seeds.

That's a new one on me Mark. As the seeds are about 6 feet up it sounds a little tricky........

Posted by onlymark on Sept 24, 2010, 4:13pm

Tricky, yes but not impossible, especially if your bear in mind that the higher you go the more windy it is.

Posted by mickthecactus on Sept 24, 2010, 4:15pm

Oh good grief.........

Posted by bixaorellana on Sept 24, 2010, 5:21pm

Why, WHY, do I fall for Mark's ~~foolishness~~ cleverness?!

Posted by onlymark on Sept 24, 2010, 5:50pm

You've crossed out the wrong word Bixa.

Posted by tod2 on Oct 17, 2010, 4:02pm

This is what I am waiting to see appear on my Kudu Lily! At first glance the flowers almost look like an orchid with their frilly-like petals twisted in a circular shape. I bought mine at the Skukuza Nursery last time we went to the Kruger National Park. So far it's doing well, but no blooms!!

http://www.sprig.co.za/2009/05/kudu-lily/

My Kudu Lily
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Posted by bixaorellana on Oct 17, 2010, 6:30pm

What a beauty that is, Tod! I've been trying to identify it. Probably Mick will be able to pinpoint exactly what it is.
Here's a good page on various Adenia: http://www.miles2go.com/suc1.htm & from the same site, the page on Pachpodia: http://www.miles2go.com/suc1.htm Click on the names to see the pictures.

Image galleries: http://adenium.tucsoncactus.org/species.html

Posted by tod2 on Oct 18, 2010, 4:23am

Bixa - On the link I gave there is a message board and on it I see someone has given The Kudu Lily this botanical Latin name:
The Kudu lily is the: Pachypodium Saundersii

I am trying to get some good pics of my Namibian trees - Kokerboom or Quiver tree. I bought three tiny little plants but now they are ready to be put in a permanent position.

Posted by bixaorellana on Oct 18, 2010, 4:51am

Thanks so much, Tod. I actually read down the comments earlier & completely missed seeing that.

I looked up the kokerboom and was amazed to find that it's an aloe.

Wonder what all our gardens would look like if the African plants were suddenly subtracted from them.

Posted by tod2 on Oct 18, 2010, 8:13am

Yes, that would be interesting! I also have an Impala Lily which is even more slow growing than the Kudu Lily....Has the beautiful bright pink flowers - neither have bloomed in 2 years!! I should be grateful that they haven't rotted away in the different soil here

Posted by mickthecactus on Oct 18, 2010, 12:46pm

If only I had the weather for a Pachypodium like that...

I managed to get A. dichotoma to about 10' some years ago but by then it was too big for me to keep through winter. I gave it to friends who had an enormous house but within a year it was dead........

Posted by bixaorellana on Oct 18, 2010, 2:56pm

Did it die from incorrect care? Maybe they loved it to death with watering.

Posted by mickthecactus on Oct 18, 2010, 4:00pm

Oct 18, 2010, 2:56pm, bixaorellana wrote:

Did it die from incorrect care? Maybe they loved it to death with watering.

Yup.

It was inevitable.............


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