Nearly chucked this out earlier in the year

[Chris L]

I can be slow sometimes - this plant had gone brown and wrinkly and very poorly looking earlier in the year - looked very dry and sunburnt......

Funny that it has now perked up and looks great... and even looks like it is going to flower.
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[iann]

A keeper! Conophytums are "supposed" to look dead in the summer, but should be looking quite lush by now. I went to throw out some of my Conophytums a few weeks ago, but except for one there were still plump leaves hiding inside the dead ones. Possibly the roots aren't great, but definitely alive.


I tend not to take pictures of them in dormancy, for obvious reasons, but here's one that flowers through the dried old leaves in mid-summer.