Just about my favourite plant, and I don't have that many plants just now, is this Euphorbia Crispa, which I have had for about 6 years now. [It came along just before my eldest daughter was born]. I'm not really sure how old it is, and it leads a fairly tough life because I am so afraid to overwater it.
I loved the look of it somehow the first time I saw it. I don't think I'd been particularly bothered about succulents or caudiciforms before but I just loved the shape of the leaves I think.
It also made me start looking for books on the subject so I could learn more about the different types of Euphorbia, so its helped in an educational way too!
March Your Favourite plant & what features make it so
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Joined online Member number 49972. Bradford Branch.
Interests include South American cacti and spiny Euphorbias
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Interests include South American cacti and spiny Euphorbias
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Okay, well my favourite plant has to be my "Avatar"!
Mammillaria saboae subsp. goldii for its specially shaped bodies and wonderful flowers, all in such a small plant:
Mammillaria saboae subsp. goldii for its specially shaped bodies and wonderful flowers, all in such a small plant:
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I think my present favourite would have to be Turbinicarpus subterraneus, as with it's peculiar initial pseudo-etiolated growth it looks quite unlike other cacti.
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This Lobivia jajoana has been posted on the site before, but here goes.
Five lovely black eyes!
Five lovely black eyes!
Interested in cacti (particularly Echinopsis, Rebutia, Sulcorebutia, Lobivia, Gymnos and Chamaelobivia), Stapeliads, Sempervivums, and anything else that takes my fancy.
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At the moment I like this one, especially the colours - bluey/green colour of the plant and red prominent teeth.
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Tricky to say what my favourite plant is, but I do have a fondness for this Echinopsis (probably eyriesii) which was given to me by my grandma after a neighbour left it outside to die in the snow one winter because it got too big for her kitchen windowsill. The plant is rather old and tatty but it makes a wonderful display of flowers each year for my birthday in July.
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BCSS Member since 2005. My collection has been somewhat neglected since starting a PhD but I am particularly keen on Crassulaceae, succulent Pelargoniums and South African bulbs.
BCSS Member since 2005. My collection has been somewhat neglected since starting a PhD but I am particularly keen on Crassulaceae, succulent Pelargoniums and South African bulbs.
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This is my favourite because I have grown it for over 22 years and it is a plant one has to love because not many do. Beaucarnia Recuvata. Photo taken last year. The plant was outside for 5 months of the year. The plant is about 36 inches tall from base of caudex to the top of the leaves.
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I must confess I regularly forget to view the Photo's thread & having seen Tina's post on the main discussion thread I thought I would post a pic, especially as there seems fewer posts ??
I am not the greatest photographer and surprisingly it is not for the flowers that I generally grow cacti & probably why I gorow just as many succulents i.e. for form. But I thought this Double flowered Mamm. guelzowiana might attract some interest.
It needs a good amount of sunshine to fully open so it is not always like the pic !!
I am not the greatest photographer and surprisingly it is not for the flowers that I generally grow cacti & probably why I gorow just as many succulents i.e. for form. But I thought this Double flowered Mamm. guelzowiana might attract some interest.
It needs a good amount of sunshine to fully open so it is not always like the pic !!
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There are so many absolute lovely plants here that my pic is an outsider, but I owe the posting to this Dioscorea sylvatica. This and an elephantipes started my love for the Dioscoreas. I bought it as a tiny seedling and it resisted to my bad cultivation for well over 20 years
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Have to admit to a soft spot for these fellas - Pseudolithos
I guess its the form and patterns of the epidermis, but also the challenge of growing and flowering them. These plants were the 'holy grail' and so rare when I first started collecting, I could never have imagined growing them like I do now!
I guess its the form and patterns of the epidermis, but also the challenge of growing and flowering them. These plants were the 'holy grail' and so rare when I first started collecting, I could never have imagined growing them like I do now!