IOS at Kew

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Re: IOS at Kew - Aeonium undulatum

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The Canarian Island Aeonium undulatum coming into flower.

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Re: IOS at Kew - Kalanchoe schimperiana

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The Ethiopian and Tanzanian Kalanchoe schimperiana caught my eye.

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Re: IOS at Kew - IOS members

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Two very famous IOS members, both interested in Aloe and Euphorbia: Susan Carter Holmes and Len Newton, with rather appropriately some aloes in the background.

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Re: IOS at Kew - Strelitzia

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Last pic, a bit off topic, but this is Strelitzia ? reginae growing in the succulent house so I thought this would be OK.:)

I've a large potted plant of this and hoping to get it to flower.

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Re: IOS at Kew

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Hi Tom,

Sorry, no idea how Kew's mesembs are, because I didn't have time to look at them. I bypassed the cacti too.;)
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Re: IOS at Kew - Beschorneria yuccoides

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[size=medium]Hi Colin

Some wonderful plants there, the agaves look great .
I didn't realise my A.pumila's will get so big, still it will take them a long time I suppose.
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varied collection of succulents and cacti but I especially like Euphorbia's, Ariocarpus and variegated agaves.

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Re: IOS at Kew

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Excellent Colin thank you for sharing these with us. Spoke to Roy M this morning and he said he had a fantastic weekend including plenty of wine with a nice meal!

Re Pelagonium Triste - I have a nice size one of that plant but it only has a small amount of foliage at the moment.

One of these days I must visit Kew!
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Re: IOS at Kew - Beschorneria yuccoides

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Hi Chief Mod,

I don't even have A. pumila, small or large, so on your scavengings maybe you'd please keep an eye open for this for me, please ever so? A. pendula would be good to have too, but I think that's possibly a tad too large for my space!

A. guadalajarana and A. isthmensis were my favourites, but I have both of these already and they look good even as small plants.
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Re: IOS at Kew

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The Agave you think maybe chiapensis Colin, looks very similar (the teeth and leaf colour anyway) to one I have labelled as polyacantha xalapensis. I think my favourite has to be A. pumila, you don't see those very often.
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Re: IOS at Kew

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Hi Vic,

Thanks for your thoughts on the A. ? chiapensis ID. I've emailed a guy at Kew to check on the IDs of a couple of plants, this one included. The plant had no label, but another, similar one had the ID A. chiapensis, so that's where that ID came from.

I've also flagged up with Kew that the Aloe is definitely a Bulbine. :S
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