Whatever it’s called has flowered

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Whatever it’s called has flowered

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So bone dry, cold winter rest and bingo....
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To be honest I wasn’t expecting it to survive -5 but it did and then it flowered. Quite pretty really for a weed.
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Very nice coloured flowers Mike! I thought (hoped?) I'd killed off the flat leaved form (no idea if it is a species or hybrid as it was hitchhiker in a cactus I bought) I'd got but some small ones survived and are growing rapidly.
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Probably find it is self-fertile and you'll have hundreds of seedlings before you know it :)
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Show us a pic of the leaves. It might be Kalanchoe x houghtonii.
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Like Ed I first received it well concealed in a plant I purchased.
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I managed to eliminate them and their self-rooted plantlets from my collection and propagation house after about thirty years! :wink:
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You need the eyes of an eagle for that.
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Tony R wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 5:53 pm I managed to eliminate them and their self-rooted plantlets from my collection and propagation house after about thirty years! :wink:
Well done! Did you use a blowtorch?
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Get rid of it before it 'carefully conceals' itself in the middle of the opuntias. Maybe the folk in the greenhouse next door would like it!

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