Stapeliad thread

[Darren S]

The storms seem to have completely bypassed us. This Orbea melanantha just popped open in the sunshine.

[Herts Mike]

Nice Darren!

[Herts Mike]

Piaranthus geminatus ssp. geminatus

[Diane]

I have at last managed to flower a Pseudolithos migiurtinus!,I’m not sure where I obtained this one, as I’ve had a few over the last few years (which have collapsed on me at various times), but I think I acquired this one at a cactus mart about 4 or 5 years ago. It had to be rerooted at the time, and then was potted in a mineral mix, but never grew very much. I decided to repot a couple of months ago into a slightly richer mix, and it took off, quickly developing buds on two sides, and now in flower.

It is a permanent resident in my propagator, so kept nice and warm all the time.

(I now have to coax my seed-grown P. cubiformis to do the same…)

Pseudolithos migiurtinus

Pseudolithos migiurtinus

[Herts Mike]

Well done Diane!

[Herts Mike]

Huernia volkartii this morning

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[Herts Mike]

Piaranthus comptus. This is the variety that used to be called barrydalensis.

[Tina]

Congratulations diane, good to flower one of these beasties. Its also nice to know they can be rerooted.
I do like the little 'cilia' that wave about, wrong word as for mammals but you know what I mean.

[Darren S]

Apteranthes europaea with visitor in yesterday's sunshine.

[Tina]

Darren
Love the flowers on Orbea melanantha .
Mike,
you seem to have a never ending supply of nice plants