The Stapelia grandiflora had it's second flower open - this one had some deformation on a couple of the petals - and I went ahead and touched the more accessible petals. As this flower is pollinated by flies, the flower is supposed to resemble a carcass of an animal (same for the smell, which I am luckily not detecting). The petal felt like leather and the hairs on the petal could have easily passed for animal hair. Pretty amazing what life does on this planet if you ask me!!!
Noe is trying to leaf propagate her Portulaca molokiniensis from the mother plant that was leaf propagated.
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