Thanks Tina, yes fuzzy leaves. If I remember correctly I saw ankarensis predominantly growing in shaded wooded areas in leaf litter and pachypodioides on the baking rocky tsingy outcrops, but my memory isn't always that great.

I'd bring it indoors and grow it on a sunny window sill without a winter break. There's a few succulents that take so long to come back into leaf after a winter break that they've hardly made much growth before the next winter. Some of the leafy Euphorbias seem to fit into that category and they se...

Nick I water this plant "as usual" i.e. from April to September, but it does flower at a different time to when it's in leaf, and it does need a high winter temperature (I keep it at 15C). Perhaps you were watering it so sparingly, it was not convinced the rainy season had really come? Ralph Thanks...

I don't grow Euphorbias but I do like to grow plants that I've seen in habitat so after a trip to Ankarana a couple of years ago I sourced a small Euphorbia ankarensis amongst other plants. Last year it leafed out in the spring and grew all summer. I watered it when dry and left it dry all winter. E...

Someone has come to the rescue Tina but thanks anyway, it's much appreciated.

When I'm next off to Madagascar I'll let you know Its a fantastic place, really unique.

ragamala wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 12, 2019 8:40 am

I am now feeling guilty, Nick, that I have this through your generosity and you have lost yours.

That's OK, maybe I'll just have to go back and get some more.

MikeDom wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 11, 2019 8:22 pm

Hi Nick, Is yours in worse condition?

Yes, it's dead

It dried up like yours from the bottom but completely so. I cut the top off and tried to root it but it rotted.

The only seedling I kept from this seed dried up and died over the winter, anyone got a spare?

Phil_SK wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 23, 2019 9:04 pm

Lobivia schieliana?

I thought L.schieliana as well when I first looked. I have a pale spined form but I also have a Ralf Hillmann clone that is similar to the OP's plant.

For example, for Ralf Hillmann's plants, a number by itself, e.g. RH1234, is probably seed raised,but a number followed by /n indicates a vegetative propagation of the nth particular clone of the original collection, e.g. RH1234/3. Sounds useful. Does 'nth particular clone' mean generations from se...