New Huernia piersii Growth

New growth

 

 Look for the tiny purple spot

Oh Yeah It Opened!!!

The Tavaresia barklyi flower opened last night - really beautiful flower!!!



 Can you tell I'm excited about this!

 

Pedilanthus tithymaloides v. cucculata ssp smallii Update

This interesting plant seems to have rooted - both of the cuttings. I say that because gentle nudges with a knuckle are met with resistance indicative of rooting. I won't repot until after new growth is more than evident (and perhaps surpasses that of the what is present now).

 


Some leaves have died and fallen away, but there is a new set that seems to be filling in. The color is a pretty solid green - I'd say this plant is healthy and probably spending effort and energy to build up its root system. Good thing I've developed a sense of patience...

This Thing is Going to Blow!!!

The Tavaresia barklyi developing flower is getting really big (proportionately).

 

 This thing is going to open up anytime now!!! Stay tuned!!!

Portulaca Germination

The lutea seeds are like weeds - I can't figure out the molokiniensis....

 

Back to the drawing board (or the internet)

More Pictures of the Amorphophallus

Basal shoots on both plants

 

 Closeup of the bulbils (I found a second one growing on one of the leaf intersections further up)

 

More Stapelia grandiflora Flowers

Two flowers opened up at the same time.

 

Funny how these flowers seem to explode open and conform to whatever is behind it (as if it have exploded open). I tried to take a close up...

 

More Portulaca molokiniensis Pictures Just Because

I just moved these from the back corner of the house to the more open part of the backyard - primarily because this area gets a lot more direct sunlight this part of the year. Here are a couple of pictures just because these plants are really cool.

 

Amorphophallus bulbifer

La was at the Lyon Arboretum and saw they had an Amorphophallus plant for sale. She knew I had one and decided I should have another ;)

 

 The plant had a tag and it identified it as an Amorphophallus bulbifer. The one I already had is an Amorphophallus konjac.

 

 I did a little research on this species and the growth in the middle of the plant where the leaves branch off has a growth that may be a new plant (a third means of reproducing in addition to new shoots and seeds) - I'll have to look into this a little more.... And it also has a secondary shoot emerging already (I just noticed the same on the konjac).

 

 It is almost double the height of the konjac and the camouflage is also different than the konjac. As I was repotting this plant, I tried looking to see what the tuber/corm looked like, but I could not find one. Based on that I am assuming this is a really young plant - no more than a year old or so.

 

 These are some really funky plants!!!! It's going to be fun watching these grow through their different cycles!

Unidentified Euphorbia from the June CSSH Meeting

This is a plant Noe and I picked up in the CSSH plant raffle. Asking some knowledgeable folks and doing some internet surfing yields a possible identification of Euphorbia jansenvillensis, Euphorbia tubiglans, or Euphorbia caput-medusa.

 

Euphorbia lactea Crested Potted

I potted the Euphorbia lactea I bought at the CSSH meeting. As you can see from the pictures, it is rooted nicely. From my experience with a white variant of the normal growth form of Euphorbia lactea, this plant should grow pretty quickly.

Myrmecodia beccarii Seeds

Yesterday I went ahead and pulled the seed pod that was developing on the Myrmecodia beccarii. I got four seeds from the fruit/berry. These were planted in the same manner the five Hydnophytum formicarum seeds were (LFS bedding, plastic matrix pot). I'll post if these germinate - if they are anything like their cousins, these will germinate in just a couple of days (the last Hydnophytum seed had popped out of it's seed case in just 24 hours). Here's the void left by the berry after it was pulled. This is a really weird and unusual plant species -

More Stapeliad Flowers

The Stapelia grandiflora is pushing out flowers now. This one in bloom is number three, and you can see number four is close behind. The plant on the other side of the planter box is now showing developing inflorescence so we'll have these starfish flowers around for a number of weeks. Funny thing - I was checkout the plants yesterday afternoon (patrolling for mealies and making sure the heat and humidity are not causing any issues - that I can prevent anyways...), and after seeing this flower I noticed a pretty unsavory smell. I commented on the odor as La passed by, and she said she had sprinkled some iron supplement around her plants earlier.

Close Ups of the New Plants Acquired from the CSSH Meeting

It's definitely summer time! Lots of people brought in lots of plants to sell in the courtyard and to give away through the raffle. A lot of plants didn't even make it up to the table - lots of exchanging happened before the meeting (awesome community!!!). By the time we got through calling everyone's ticket number, only about half the plants were taken. We called everyone back up and were able to get most moved on to new homes. I only spent $2 last night and that was for the varigated and crested Euphorbia lactea! The rest were either from the raffle (really ugly Euhorbia) or from Duc (stapeliads).

June 2017 CSSH Meeting

Another fun meeting of the CSSH!!! Pictures from La's phone - my Portulaca molokiniensis drew a lot of attention.

 

Pictures from my phone -

    

 I really have a fetish for ugly plants!!!