Oxalis tuberosa (aka Oca)

[AnTTun]

While looking for a solution to exterminate one of the members of oxalis family from my back yard I've ran across this article:

https://www.cultivariable.com/instructi ... -grow-oca/

Its perennial, it has tuber... is it 'other succulent' as well?

[Acid John]

Some for sale here.
https://www.realseeds.co.uk/unusualtubers.html

[AnTTun]

119 views and no opinion if it should/could be considered 'other succulent' or not... Tsk, tsk & tsk

[edds]

119 views and no opinion if it should/could be considered 'other succulent' or not... Tsk, tsk & tsk

I've got a tuberous perennial sunflower - I wouldn't consider that a succulent!

[Paul in Essex]

Potatoes on the show bench! There's a thought.

[AnTTun]

edds & Paul: I agree with both. But some oxalis species are considered to be (borderline?) succulents, thats why I've asked...

[Acid John]

AnTTun what is allowed is very confusing. The Oxalis you refer to is a food crop and dies each year like a potato but regrows from new tubers. So what is succulence?
To my mind many caudiciforms are not succulent they survive in arid conditions by dieing back to a underground tuber like a Parsnip so what is succulent about that.

[Terry S.]

A succulent is whatever is defined by the BCSS Shows Committee. So some plants with very succulent leaves, e.g. some Bromelids such as Hechtia and certain orchids are not succulents by their standards.

[AnTTun]

Now we're getting somewhere, thank you Terry
Is there some kind of list or rules or...defined by the BCSS Shows Committee?

[Acid John]

http://www.society.bcss.org.uk/index.ph ... shows.html
£4 to you AnTTun.