IOS at Kew

[Colin Walker]

The cliff dwelling Agave pendula. I've never seen this before and here it's in flower. Not easy to get a good pic of this large floor-standing plant.

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[Colin Walker]

Agave pumila.

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[Colin Walker]

No ID (label missing) on this huge floor-standing Agave. I will email the guys at Kew at their suggestion, since they should be able to track it down in their database.

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[Colin Walker]

An agave relative: Beschorneria yuccoides. Indeed the leaves are very Yucca-like, so a very appropriate name. I'd not seen this in flower before, and actually I was a tad too early since I don't think any flowers had yet opened.

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[Colin Walker]

Okay guys, this is THE last succulent senocot, but this time an African. It was labelled Aloe and put to one side, so clearly soneone knew the name was wrong. I didn't raise this with anyone at the time.

This is clearly a Bulbine and I think it's B. latifolia - anyone else got a take on this ID please?

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[Tom J]

Hi Colin,

Nice pics!
How's the mesemb part in the research collection?


Tom

[Colin Walker]

Here's the first of a few pelargoniums since we've had a couple of threads lately on this genus. Here's a group of P. crithmifolium doing various contortions!

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[Colin Walker]

And here's Pelargonium laxum being very, well, laid back and lax.

This is the plant in the top hanging basket, BTW.

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[Colin Walker]

A little while back I posted up a pic of my plant of Pelargonium paniculatum. Well, I think that ID is wrong, 'cos here is the true species. Note the remains of the leaf bases and the leaves are finely divided and succulent. It only had a single branch - infrequently branching is another characteristic feature of this sp.

To give a sense of scale, the largest of the two stems must be around 50 cm tall.

BTW, if I could have taken away just a single plant, this would have been it. I would give my eye teeth and more besides, for such a large, true ID plant of this sp.

Interestingly, in view of our recent thread on Tina's plant that I believe to be P. klinghardtense, I didn't see a specimen thus labelled at Kew.

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[Colin Walker]

Last Pelargonium: this time the caudiciform or tuberous P. triste. And boy are these tubers BIG.

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