I recently got an odd plant that had a hard time surviving at my parents house. I could no longer stand it and took it under my care. It has started to grow again and got new roots, so I think it will survive. But i have no clue whatsoever what species it is or family it belongs to. It's quite pale ...

The flowers on my Edithcolea plant from Somalia have opened today! The flower surface is not flat, but kind of 'nippled': The flowers look quite different from the 'common' form: Anyone else that has yet another different form of this species?

In April this year I finally managed to get my hands on an Edithcolea plant from the Hamadiroh area, Socotra. The plant did not look very well, and at first I expected it to die. So to be safe a made a graft on an Edithcolea stock. It took and grows very well. It doubled in size in mere weeks. At th...

This morning 3 flowers opened on my Edithcolea grandis (from Sagala, Kenya).
And if that wasn't enough, one of them is 6-lobed, instead of the usual 5-petals...
Anyone seen this before?

@AnTTun: I bought 10 seeds from N. Gordon, World Wonders Gardens on Ebay on march the 5th 2010. 8 seeds grew a plant. @Tina: The picture shows the second plant as I got it. Challenge? Well, if the means that we get a better understanding in how to grow this remarkable plant, I think its worth it. My...

To you all in idea about how fast these plants can grow (the coin is a 2 euro piece, 1 inch diameter):

The other plant is also blooming! This plant is more sturdy in growth and has a more 'fresh' looking green (compared to the darker, olive green colour of the other plant).

A flower opened this morning!
I couldn't resist the temptation to show you its beauty:

Things are getting a bit out of hand here, if one may say so. Flowers about to get all over the plant... IMG_9736.jpg The picture isn't a good one, as the space is a bit cramped in the incubator. I've desaturated everything, except the flower buds to give you an idea. And the biggest buds aren't vis...

Still small, yet growing...