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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 26, 2020 16:14:44 GMT
Huernia pillansii Piaranthus parvulus
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 26, 2020 18:27:02 GMT
You'll hate me for this, but ............ that dish of Huernia really needs some teeny garden gnomes & perhaps a tiny Black Forest style cottage.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 26, 2020 18:47:46 GMT
Agreed Well I'm getting the tender plants ready for winter, of course I've planted my aloe polyphylla in a Belfast sink now so it can't be over wintered indoors! I have a large bell shaped cloche that I've placed over the top, there's still a gap at the bottom (it is held in place by metal pegs) so the air an still circulate but it should keep the rain and snow off the rosette. Fingers crossed.
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 26, 2020 18:57:35 GMT
I could go with that too. I have 2 other clones of pillansii, one much thinner and the other one a little fat boy.
My polyphyllas stay out all winter but are under the eaves and facing south so should be ok.
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 28, 2020 12:20:27 GMT
Stapelia glanduliflora
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Post by tod2 on Sept 28, 2020 12:35:23 GMT
Oh that takes my breath away Mick!! How different, delicate and just super lovely.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 29, 2020 16:21:28 GMT
Amazing tendrils.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 30, 2020 0:53:21 GMT
Surely that is the most beautiful of the Stapelia flowers!
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 30, 2020 6:44:03 GMT
First time I've flowered it.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 30, 2020 15:14:42 GMT
It's a treasure!
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 30, 2020 16:24:26 GMT
Crassula barklyi
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 30, 2020 20:10:02 GMT
It does look rather canine.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 3, 2020 15:27:22 GMT
another totally alien plant!
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 6, 2020 16:13:19 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 6, 2020 16:30:50 GMT
I wonder if any of that is edible since it looks like almonds and beans and stuff.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 6, 2020 21:34:09 GMT
I love all the Crassulas and your pictures clearly show why.
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 17, 2020 11:25:07 GMT
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Post by tod2 on Oct 17, 2020 13:04:12 GMT
Mick, please revert to a lighter shade of nail varnish when doing your nails! Strange but beautiful flower….
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 17, 2020 13:57:43 GMT
My daughter was assisting me....
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 17, 2020 16:15:23 GMT
Tiger flower! Is that a Huernia, Mick?
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 17, 2020 16:53:46 GMT
Orbea variegata. Sorry. Should have said.
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Post by tod2 on Oct 18, 2020 10:57:16 GMT
Mick your daughters nail varnish took me straight back to my childhood. In a nutshell the wife of the farmer on the next-door farm was meticulous about her appearance and told my mum (after mum had admired her long painted fingernails) that the moment she removed the old nail varnish she had to re-apply it as the daylight caused her terrible pain on her fingernails when exposed to sunlight. Don't ask about any moonlight nights…..
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 18, 2020 12:32:28 GMT
That’s a new one to me!
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 18, 2020 12:34:47 GMT
Orbea verrucosa
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 18, 2020 15:45:13 GMT
From your pictures, it would seem that all of the Stapeliads have flowers which star in one way or another!
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 19, 2020 17:04:57 GMT
Yes and always 5 pointed although I once had a 6 pointed flower.
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 4, 2020 15:51:35 GMT
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Post by tod2 on Nov 4, 2020 15:54:54 GMT
Oh what brilliant colours Mick! The flowers remind me of waterlilies.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 4, 2020 16:29:26 GMT
Wow! What is the middle one, Mick? And is the one on the bottom some kind of Ariocarpus?
(And wouldn't it be nice, since you are after all a cactus/succulent expert, if you identified all the beauties you dangle in front of us?)
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 4, 2020 17:07:37 GMT
At the back Ariocarpus retusus, the two purple flowers are A. Agavoides, the centre A. Retusus ssp. trigonus and at the front A. kotschoubeyanus.
Should I dangle my beauty again I will definitely give the name.
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