Non cactus winners at zone 15 show

[Tina]

Could the front right be an Ipomoea.

Yes Colin know it's a Fockea but don't you remember the skinhead one at the National

[Colin Walker]

Just checked "Teratopia", and it is named as "Maelstrom". This is the first time I've ever seen this plant honoured with a name, in all the years I've been growing it! I think you have to take some names with a little pinch of salt, Gordon is rather renowned for coming up with names.

He's published it. Within reason he's at liberty to do this, whatever you or I might think of it I'm not a fan of some of his mass cultivar naming but this seems one of his better choices, surely?

Hi Phil & Diane,
I agree about the mass naming of cultivars, but yes, 'Maelstrom' is a great name for this really whacky, highly unstable beast.

[Colin Walker]

Could the front right be an Ipomoea.
Yes Colin know it's a Fockea but don't you remember the skinhead one at the National

Hi Tina,
Depends what was allowed in this class. If it was for fockeas or asclepiads then nope!
Can anyone who was actually at the show help, please?

[B.A.]

Hi all ,alot of interest here , i,ll see if i,ve got any pics that can be more helpfull , but might be a while though.
cheers
Bruce

[Marlon Machado]

Which is the Euphorbia shown in the fourth picture up from the last? E. francoisii?

Cheers,

Marlon.

[Tony R]

I think that is what the label says, Marlon, if you enlarge it up.

[Tina]

Euphorbia shown in the fourth picture up from the last-E. francoisii?

Could this be E. francoisii var crassicaulis as it's a very large form even the flowers are supersized.

[B.A.]

Hope these answer some of your questions

top right hand corner aswell

[B.A.]

remember you can click on the pics to enlarge them

another pic of this superb plant

[Aiko]

The last photo, what is this plant? My first guess would be a Pseudolithos.

It's White-sloanea crassa, a stapeliad from Somalia that's rarely been seen and collected in the wild, and what a superb specimen it is. I've never grown this myself so I don't know how tricky it really is.

Thank you. I have put this plant on my list of plants I would like to come across, once. I am sure it can be best of friends with my Trichocaulon and Pseudolithos I already have, some day.