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A real stinker

Post by ralphrmartin »

While many stapeliads have a bad smell, Pseudolithos cubiformis is particularly bad, and can be smelt from quite a way off. This is the second flush of flowers this year.
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They definitely smell bad. I've chopped off the flowers many times when there's no chance for pollination.
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Oh well done, Ralph! I have a few seedlings (touch wood!) but so far, no flowers.
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Here is a beauty I smelled out from a great distance in Gerhard Marx's collection in SA.

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What an astonishing plant! Not one for on the lounge window sill, though?!
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It somehow looks as though it belongs under water surrounded by tropical fish…
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Remarkable plants.
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Wow - fab plant!
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Super (tu)
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Amazing plant- is there a non-smelly form?
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