March Your Favourite plant & what features make it so

[dalesmatt]

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!

Caudiciform Euphorbia

[Tony R]

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:

[DaveW]

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.

DaveW

[Alan Clark]

This Lobivia jajoana has been posted on the site before, but here goes.
Five lovely black eyes!

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[mjhealy]

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I only have a small collection, but my favourite changes daily.

At the moment I like this one, especially the colours - bluey/green colour of the plant and red prominent teeth.

[Victoria]

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.

[Ernie]

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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[Phil White]

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 !!

[Eveandrea]

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

[Lithos]

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!