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Post by tod2 on Jul 24, 2021 10:43:32 GMT
Looking forward to your "makeover" Mick!
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 30, 2021 17:09:35 GMT
Orbea wissmannii ssp eremastrum
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 5, 2021 13:16:57 GMT
Huernia keniensis ssp keniensis
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 5, 2021 13:57:56 GMT
Amazingly coincidental that you posted that picture today. Just yesterday evening I saw a photograph of the flower in a book, but there was only a description of the leaves. Very happy to see the whole thing!
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 5, 2021 17:31:36 GMT
I could probably scrub my back with that in the shower.
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Post by tod2 on Aug 6, 2021 9:30:43 GMT
It certainly is most odd-looking but then most are very strange and alien-like.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 8, 2021 10:53:48 GMT
Huernia volkartii Haworthia mutica
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Post by tod2 on Aug 8, 2021 13:04:50 GMT
I really like the look of this last one! Mick, does it grow like many succulents just by breaking off a leaf and planting it?
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 8, 2021 15:33:49 GMT
Wow ~ two exceptional beauties there, Mick!
How big is that Huernia flower -- about 2" across?
I love that H.mutica. It has all the visual surprise of the "living stones", but surely must be easier to care for.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 8, 2021 16:57:47 GMT
It’s about 1” across Bixa. I took a close up.
Yes Tod, with patience you can propagate from the leaves. Yes, not difficult to care for but most living stones aren’t that difficult once you follow some basic rules.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 10, 2021 17:14:47 GMT
Huernia keniensis ssp grandiflora Copiapoa barquitensis
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 14, 2021 23:41:12 GMT
Your plants flower so freely for you, Mick, I guess because you keep them so happy. I had a Huernia (or something in the related family) with a flower similar to that H.keniensis, but not anything worthy of being called grandiflora. What was extremely remarkable about it was its pervasive odor of doggy diarrhea. So night before last I had the house all closed up for the night when I realized there must be a nice breeze because my wind chimes were performing beautifully. I decided to open the front door & it was a good thing I did. As you can see in the pictures, I had missed the jungle cactus performance of the previous night, but this night I got to enjoy the chime concert and two new flower openings ~
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 15, 2021 8:33:50 GMT
There's lovely!
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Post by tod2 on Aug 15, 2021 9:39:43 GMT
So so beautiful Bixa! I am sad my one is planted around the otherside of the house where it is near my carport & climbs up a tree. I only get to see the spent blooms when I go to get in the car. You are so fortunate to have it so near.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 15, 2021 15:30:43 GMT
Thank you, dear Mick!
Even though mine is right in the patio, I wind up missing the blooms sometimes too, Tod, due to its night blooming habit. I have another Epiphyllum, E. hookeri, which winds up a pole of the carport. I mostly get to "enjoy" the withered blossoms, rather than the floral show. Yesterday I passed a house with a brick wall around it. There were multiple thick branches of dragon fruit cactus spilling over the top of the wall and what seemed like zillions of spent blossoms. How I would have loved to see them in bloom! I have a dragon fruit cactus (Selenicereus) in a pot up against the block wall of my patio, just outside the front door. It is furiously attaching itself to that wall with lots of flat roots. It will be interesting to see how it ends up & if it will bear fruit.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 17, 2021 16:30:40 GMT
Huernia barbata
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 17, 2021 16:34:06 GMT
Huernia occulta
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 17, 2021 16:58:44 GMT
Love those color-coordinated blooms, Mick! H.barbata has exceptionally nice stems, too.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 19, 2021 15:35:14 GMT
This tiny Aloe is Aloe descoingsii ssp augustina.
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Post by tod2 on Aug 19, 2021 15:39:24 GMT
Oh hello and welcome to our Anyport World little Aloe! What a cutie Mick!
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 19, 2021 16:39:51 GMT
Itsy bitsy darling!
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 22, 2021 12:31:42 GMT
Aloe melanacantha
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 22, 2021 16:32:44 GMT
Oooo ~ a baby monster! That is as vicious looking as A.ferox. How big does it get, Mick?
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 22, 2021 16:44:42 GMT
Actually the spines are soft so not difficult to handle. It will get a bit bigger but then start to clump.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 22, 2021 16:58:36 GMT
It is delightful ~ I love it!
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 22, 2021 18:21:52 GMT
Aloe erinacea, a close relative
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 22, 2021 18:33:21 GMT
Also lovely. I do admire the relatively chubbiness of A.melanacantha, though. Tell me what you think of my work here. I finally took some advice you gave me long ago, re: exposing the caudex of an Adenium obesum ~ I only put her on the plant stand long enough to take the pictures. She is now over in the protected nursery area to give the newly exposed portion time to toughen up.
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Post by tod2 on Aug 23, 2021 7:35:40 GMT
Oh wow Bixa! I wish my Impala lily survived. Too much water and it rotted away. Unfortunately my garden man has no clue to the difference between succulents/desert and other plants who love water.. I try to point out the difference but next week it will be all forgotten.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 23, 2021 10:46:55 GMT
Why not put a red straw next to the plants you don’t want him to water?
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Post by tod2 on Aug 23, 2021 10:54:09 GMT
I guess that might work but an odious task as my garden is quite big. Plants are flung here there and everywhere. I think I will just do the ones closest to my patio.
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