March Your Favourite plant & what features make it so

[Tina]

is it the spines, flowers, overall shape, you grew it from seed- tell us,

[Chris L]

This is my favourite plant. It is Gymnocalycium quehlianum v. albispinum.

Why do I like it? Flowers. It produces quite a few flowers each year. Unfortunately it seems to have marked slightly with the cold weather (I hope it is OK). This has finally made me decide I need some heat in the GH over winter. Picture number four is my desktop background.

[Lithos]

Dorstenia barnimiana - just a cute little thing with bonkers flowers - This one is from Yemen

Brachystelma sp.aff tavalla - amazing flowers - Mangula,Zimbabwe

[iann]

My favourite plant changes every day! Obviously it must be something frown from seed since that is what I enjoy more than anything else. There are many I could have chosen, but this might have more general appeal than some tiny hairy blob of a mesemb. The reason I like it must be obvious. Look at those spines

Echinocactus polycephalus

[AnTTun]

My collection is still sleeping in basement so I'm out of (good) pics. Anyway, one from last year should do, at least as small contribution here.

Euphorbia meloformis:

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My long time companion, she's been with me for 20 years or so. She's been neglected often, but still grew into a beauty she is, and made me smile when she flowered every year for many past years.

[Morgans Beauty]

i love the following two plants, especially the difference between this species look at these spines!

maihueniopsis crassispina

tephrocactus geometricus

tephrocactus geometricus

[jfabiao]

I thought hard and I came to the conclusion that my favourite plant is probably my oldest, and probably just because of that: Mammillaria geminispina, approximately 30 years old from a single, small cutting.

[Lindsey]

Spines.... hmmm, no
Flowers.... but it's only a 2-year-old
Overall shape.... yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees
Pattern and colour....
And I grew it from seed! MesaGarden 1688.

Lithops otzeniana 'Cesky Granat'

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[Diane]

Haworthia limifolia variegata is one of my favourites, because it took me a long time to get one! This is a pup from a plant I acquired at least 15 years ago, when they were as rare as hen's teeth (unlike today - there are plenty on eBay!)

The original plant is not nearly as variegated and quite small in comparison.

Haworthia limifolia variegata

[vaida]

One of my favourites - Monanthes polyphylla. Love it because it's small and cute

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