Dr Loukie Viljoen. toothache@... P O Box 245, Fourways, 2055, Gauteng South Africa. (w) +27 11 4658442, (h) +27 11 7042028 (Mobile) 0823385677 A very...
I love photographing the insects that Stapeliads attract. Not only the flies visit, but also their predators... It seems that this cleaver little spider...
This is a close up of Orbea woodii, D889 it is probably the same as the one Tim Peatling had on the site. DP 9052 Middelrus, KwaZulu natal. John kloppers To...
Dr Loukie Viljoen. toothache@... P O Box 245, Fourways, 2055, Gauteng South Africa. (w) +27 11 4658442, (h) +27 11 7042028 (Mobile) 0823385677 Hi to...
Probably one of best known Stapeliads because the dieticians and tv shopping networks saw the potential. Here are some Hoodia gordonii habitat photographs. ...
Hi, today two seed horns of Stapelia engleriana produced after hand pollination opened. I had taken the plant from more or less cold greenhouse with 10° C to...
Hi Morten - the seed pods may well be ripe as I suspect that Periploca flowers for quite a long period in the Canaries, and the fruit maturation period is...
Dear Friederike, It's a nice idea, but there's no real evidence that each stapeliad species has a different, specialized pollinator. In fact quite the...
Stapelia gigantea is very successful at attracting hordes of flies, which pretty much always ensures successful pollination. This blow fly somehow got caught...
Dear Jeff, excuse me and my short reply but I didn't say that there is one pollinator for one species, I just worte about specialisation and didn't say...
Here are some Huernia pendula habitat photographs. At first glance I thought it was Huernia keniensis, but Dr. Loukie correctly pointed out that the stems...
Hello Friederike and all! I am normally only a "silent member" of this group, because I find Stapeliads (specially Huernia with "annulus flowers) interesting....
Folks, Flowering today, the first time for me. Andrew, in NZ. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus...
Hi all, I am busy compiling a list of collection numbers. I am doing it on a Microsoft Access database. So far I have all the PVB numbers as in the new books...
Dr Loukie Viljoen. toothache@... P O Box 245, Fourways, 2055, Gauteng South Africa. (w) +27 11 4658442, (h) +27 11 7042028 (Mobile) 0823385677 Hi to...
Dear Iztok, What I am trying to do is make a list of all collection numbers, your own as well as any one else's you have. There is no list of Darrel's numbers...
Please check the additions and refernces in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepiadaceae . I will change as needed. Thanks Willy ... 09:30:42 -0500 ... ...
Willy, Thanks for pointing some of us to Wikipedia. The interactive feature is wonderful. In the write-up, there should be a change in the description of the...
Dr Loukie Viljoen. toothache@... P O Box 245, Fourways, 2055, Gauteng South Africa. (w) +27 11 4658442, (h) +27 11 7042028 (Mobile) 0823385677 Off to...
Hi John - attached is a list of the few seed collections I've made. Plants from some of these collections may have made it into general circulation as I sent...
Yale, BTW please feel free to change any portion of it as you see fit. That's what I did. I'm a chemist, not biologist. So I struggle. Maybe I should look up...
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