Fockea time

[Tina]

These are some of my fockea's, there is fockea edulis & angustifolia, some I even grew from seed.
They have had a lovely time in the garden for the summer, its quite surprising how differently shaped they all are.
This first one is a very ancient plant that came from keith Mortimers auction, it was a bit of a skinny mess & some one said it & the idria with it, were both dead so they cost me £1, I have both plants still alive, they will never be show winners but they are survivors

This one & the next I grew from seed that Colin walker gave me

This one I deliberately tried to grow horizontally so when ever it was repotted it went on its side

This is an old plant of fockea angustifolia, longer slim leaves & more rootlets

[Herts Mike]

Fockea capensis flower

[Tina]

Does yours have a lovely scent ?,

[Herts Mike]

Dunno. I’ll go and sniff it in the morning.

[peter831shaw]

Fockea capensis flower
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I have two older plants of Fockea edulis, and last year one developed a fruit. This year I looked carefully at the flowers of both plants and they looked identical.

Since they are reported to be dioecious I assumed I have a male and female.

Anyone have clear images of both I can look at?

Mine are still blooming so I hope to pollenate the "female"

Peter

[ianstrutt]

Lovely plants - I have a couple of much smaller f.edulis. One I'm leaving to its own devices and one I plan to trim off the new taproot growth each year to see if I can keep the caudex fatter and rounder. A bit of an experiment. I'll take a look to see if my handiwork has done anything sometime next year.

I've never seen angustifolia (or any other fockeas now I think about it) even offered for sale.

[Tina]

Here's the smallest of the family Fockea comaru, its in a 17cm pot. I've only seen one other of these at a show. This came from a friend in USA more than 12 years ago.
There are 6 specie of Fockea: edulis, crispa, comaru, angustiofolia, multiflora & sinuata which is extremely rare, I have never tracked one down. Multiflora is available sometimes but not an easy plant to keep long term.

Here's crispa, comaru & angustifolia leaves

Fockea crispa- you know if you have the right plant as these grow big & have serious wavy leaves.

[Herts Mike]

Isn’t crispa capensis now?

[Tina]

I prefer the name crispa but either will do, capensis is the older name isn't it.
Must admit there is so much rubbish on the WWW that unless its in a book or Colin tells me otherwise it keeps the label, sometimes with a revised name on the other side.

[MaciejW]

I am not Colin, but will question the spelling of F. comaru. I got mine from a very reputable source few years ago with F. camura.