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by Tom J
Tue Dec 18, 2012 11:46 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: unknow mesemb
Replies: 6
Views: 2237

Re: unknow mesemb

Could you be a bit more precise regarding the locality please?
It resembles indeed L maximillianus, but if you refer to the Steinkopf vicinity, it's unlikely.
There are several antimima resembling the plant in the pic, though most of these are also unnamed.
Tom
by Tom J
Sun Oct 21, 2012 7:21 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: I've been peeling ...
Replies: 23
Views: 5267

Re: I've been peeling ...

Hi Chris, yes, I try from time to time to connect to the forum. I still have to reply to your last email: yes, the roodiae is new, but it seems to resemble the lavranos material from the Karakamas mountains: I never got it adjusted to the northern hemisphere, so I'm not sure how to interpret its flo...
by Tom J
Thu Oct 18, 2012 8:06 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: I've been peeling ...
Replies: 23
Views: 5267

Re: I've been peeling ...

Hi Chris et al, When I was still living at my parents place, I flowered not a single burgeri. In that greenhouse, I had very little sunlight during autumn and spring, nothing at all during winter. After moving the plants towards the greenhouse in our old house during the winter in 2005, all burgeri ...
by Tom J
Wed Oct 26, 2011 6:29 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Crassula bulbs
Replies: 12
Views: 3048

Re: Crassula bulbs

Hi Ian, Now this is an interesting plant. It's fairly common in the field, but you have to be out there at the right time of the year. Surprisingly it is very rarely seen in cultivation, but a fun and rewarding plant, because it looks so distinctive. Cr. aff alcicornis is an even more intruiging pla...
by Tom J
Sun Oct 23, 2011 11:18 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Any hope of flowering these Antimimas?
Replies: 12
Views: 3685

Re: Any hope of flowering these Antimimas?

The trick with antimimas is to water them very light in autumn and winter so that they keep the characteristic compact shape, and to flower them heavily in early spring.

Tom
by Tom J
Tue Oct 11, 2011 8:39 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Seedling shape
Replies: 5
Views: 2072

Re: Seedling shape

Cono seedlings are even more interesting. You can have cylinders, sphaeroids, concave flattened ones etc It's highly variable. Depsite having grown them from seed from most/all species, I couldn't detect any structural link related to the sections. But for sure, C. burgeri has the most striking seed...
by Tom J
Tue Oct 11, 2011 8:33 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Mystery Conophytum!?!
Replies: 14
Views: 3620

Re: Mystery Conophytum!?!

Hi Brian,
Excellent picture showing the variation one could get with RR714.
It can go from the normal lined, towards the densely lined plants and ultimately to "black-out" as these clones are sometimes referred to.
Tom
by Tom J
Thu Sep 15, 2011 7:49 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Cono to ID please
Replies: 2
Views: 1517

Re: Cono to ID please

I'd go for C. jucundum ssp. russchii
Tom
by Tom J
Thu Sep 15, 2011 7:45 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Cono ID 2
Replies: 4
Views: 2604

Re: Cono ID 2

C. limpidum I'd say
Tom
by Tom J
Tue Sep 13, 2011 4:51 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: A few Conophytums
Replies: 10
Views: 3597

Re: A few Conophytums

Hi Ian,
It's not turrigerum because of size.
If you know all the plants in the tray, then we could get there via elimination.
If proliferans (CR1203 s Moutonsberg) was not in it, then I'd go for C. minusculum.
Tom