These are some of the flowers in my greenhouse at the moment.
To start, flowers on Cyphostemma betiforme. Plenty of tiny flowers, but a devil to pollinate.
Close up of a single flower; best I could do with a handheld phone.
Next up is Pachypodium succulentum. All 64 of my flowering plants have different flowers varying in shades of pink and white. Not one single pure white flower - very rare. The Hummingbirds are busy pollinating them in the greenhouse and there will be plenty of free seed available again in early Autumn.
Onto the late evening/nightime flowering mesembs.
First up is Stomatium geoffreyii.
Next up is Neohenricia spiculata (Mesa 1782.14). The flowers smell of sweet chocolate to attract their nightime pollinators. Hopefully should get some seed, this is quite an old plant.
I have far too many plants of Rhinephyllum broomii., here they are mostly 3 plants to a 2.5" pot This is their second year and the flowers are tiny but cute. There were dust clouds of pollen when I was cross-pollinating; I'm not the most delicate of pollinators. The second photo is taken 5 days after they started flowering, so most plants have closed up their flowers already.
Last but not least is Rhombophyllum dolabriforme, plants in their second year as well. This is the form 10km W of Graaff-Reinet. There is another form tinged red on the back of the petals which is quite spectacular.
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